“If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”
Ah, the gentle, perennial guidance of every sitcom-dad since “The Brady Bunch.”
Despite the fact that Americans watch an average of four hours of TV a day, it seems solid sitcom-dad advice is going unheeded: The Federal Trade Commission says 30.2 million Americans are falling prey [...]
This is a guest post from Tim Manni. Tim’s Financial News blog HSH, is another great place to find useful money help on a variety of topics.
You know how the saying goes, “you live and you learn.” Unfortunately, when it comes to your finances, those lessons tend to “hurt” the most. I learned several financial [...]
It’s no wonder we’re a bit blindsided by insurance policies: no one our age talks about them.
Insurance companies and health providers are calling workers in their 20s the “young invincibles.”
Driving faster than a speeding bullet, able mentally leap over the significant odds of accident/illness in a single bound and struggling with other living expenses, we [...]
A funny thing happened on the way to the yogurt aisle last week: I picked up milk for $2 a gallon. Not even joking.
I’ve consistently paid twice that much for a gallon of milk since I started buying groceries! Come to find out, milk prices nationwide have dropped 22 percent since last year. To what [...]
There is a new government agency currently being dreamed up in congress; The Consumer Financial Services Protection Agency.
The proposed agency will introduce further regulation on mortgage lenders, banks, and credit card companies.
But while our nation’s leaders are designing this new organization, American banks are bitterly fighting to destroy it.
What are the benefits of having further [...]
Predatory mortgage lenders. It’s one of those foreign new phrases used to describe the root of the economic debacle. These days, they’re facing litigation designed not only to punish risky actions, but to bring about reform.
So now that lawmakers are taking an interest in the practices of mortgage companies, homeowners are safe from the worst [...]
On June 8, two Japanese men were apprehended in Italy for attempting to smuggle $134 billion dollars in U.S. bonds into Switzerland.
By the time the U.S. Treasury department declared the bonds to be “obvious fakes,” the story had captured the imagination of the blog world, spawning conspiracy theories and mounting fear.
Bloomberg columnist William Pesek thought [...]
Since we’re reminiscing about Michael’s glory days anyway, take a stroll with me down memory lane—back to your first job. After applying at a few nondescript places close to home (which ended up a wise move on my part since I wasn’t accustomed to keeping a gas tank full and coasted home some days), you [...]
A guaranteed spot in a dream vacation destination. Locked-in vacation prices. No more shopping around for hotel rooms at peak season prices. And, to top it all off, the ability to easily trade vacation spots with other timeshare owners, anywhere in the world. A timeshare, in theory, sounds like a very sweet deal.
However, now more [...]
This is a guest post by Ryan Glover, a devoted Thrive user as well as personal finance blogger. We asked him to share his extensive research conducted in order to find the “ultimate” savings account. If you enjoy this post, we hope you’ll go read his blog: Think, Plan, Save!
It’s Saturday morning, I jump on [...]
This post was written by Stephanie Cuellar Butler, Contributing Writer on July 31, 2009 
