Money management is best learned early - when mistakes cost less. When it comes to a kid's weekly allowance there's just one thing that matters, according to Hollis Harman, an Emmy award-winning financial literacy expert and author of Money Sense for Kids. To teach your child the money-saving techniques you hope will become as habitual as teeth-brushing. [...]
Give your kids the money they want with the economic lessons they need. So your children, who double as employees (taking out the trash, picking up their rooms,) want more money. This is exactly how the Rothschilds must feel. Like the head of any good dynasty, you must raise their allowances. Yes, we're on your side here, stay with us a minute. Because we're [...]
There are lots of ways for married people to share money. If you think marriage means two people must put every penny into a joint checking account, well, you're probably still dusting and vacuming to burn calories June Cleaver-style. So take off your apron a minute while we tell you about this decade. There's hip-grinding workout music and even couples who employ [...]
Teen parent alert: keep your eye out for cans of Four Loko, a fruit-flavored malt beverage that in case you can't tell, is beer pleasing to a kid's palate. Not yet angry enough? Get this: the makers of this brew have been lying about it's alcohol content, telling underage drinkers they can safely sip an entire [...]
Companies can confuse us with numbers and make fake claims. Here's how to avoid getting tricked. Insulation scams are abound. The only thing colder than the weather is the perhaps the people in our power companies' billing departments who relentlessly send us invoices every month. And so spending money on insulation may seem to [...]
This week's we have a potentially market moving report coming out on Friday. Those government reports sure can make markets move. Turn on any television this Friday at around 8:30 a.m. east coast time and you'll hear reporters excitedly revealing the results of a jobs report that had just been released. They'll be speaking [...]
Economists may not dress well but they sure know a bit about dress prices: for example they're lowest from now until the end of February. Because just as strawberries are priced more sweetly in summer, this is the season when there are an abundance of sweet deals on dresses. In fact all big ticket items - cars, vacations [...]
Return your Annie's Pizzas to the store - the company is recalling all seven RISING CRUST varieties because it could contain pieces of mesh screen from some broken machinery. The fragments got into the product at the flour mill from where Annie's gets the power-like product. The company found the metal fragments in the pizza dough [...]
Perhaps you left behind a security deposit from your college apartment rental or saw your investment disappear thanks to some shady moves by your broker. Did you suddenly realize your tax return never arrived? Sometimes money isn't lost forever, the government could be holding your unclaimed property. These funds might not be gone forever, as there's a [...]
In honor of our media issue, we peeked into the paychecks of people who work in advertising jobs - making money buy selling us stuff. Here are some average salaries for what clearly are great jobs. Don't see your city? Let us know and we'll post whatever you want. Advertising jobs here pay big. New York [...]