Plan
You want tomorrow to be even better than today—and to get there, you need a plan. Once you put numbers to your dreams, they start to materialize. Almost like magic.
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Tax Time Treasure Hunt
Tempted to simplify your taxes by taking the standard deduction? Don’t write off the possibility of itemizing just yet. It could save you heaps of cash. The standard deduction is the amount you can deduct from your income pretty much... ➡
Think Before You Text (Your Donation)
Survivors of an 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami lie wrapped in blankets at the Red Cross operations centre in Miyagi prefecture March 11, 2011. Photo source: Reuters.comThe plight of the Japanese people is agonizing to watch. Naturally, your... ➡
FSA Money: 4 Days to Use It or Lose It
The grace period for spending down the 2010 funds in your flexible-spending account is up on March 15. Remember, whether you allocated $200 or $2,000 to be saved in your FSA last year, those are use-it-or-lose-it funds. Not every company provides... ➡
A Simpler Recipe for Wealth
There’s a strange phenomenon in the investing world I want to tell you about, a pattern I call the behavior gap—when investors earn less than their investments. Let’s consider an actual case involving the Janus Enterprise Fund. In March of 2007,... ➡
5 Ways to Save $500
Until now, we’ve been staunch fans of the Dave Ramsey method, which is to save $1,000 as your minimum cushion. But Liz Pulliam Weston, author of a must-read new personal finance book, The 10 Commandments of Money: Survive and Thrive in the New... ➡
Let the Companies Pay You
In the world of conservative investing, you can’t “get rich quick.” However, you can get more out of your investments—by picking stock mutual funds that pay dividends or have yields above 1%. What exactly is a dividend? The dividends come from... ➡
Want to Save? Think Like Mom
It’s a little uncanny how often money studies echo stuff that Mom told you (or yelled at you) when you were a kid. And while you could argue with Mom, you can’t dispute how much these tricks can help you save. Don't touch that! It’s natural to... ➡
Cope with a Tax Crunch
Tax day may be delayed until April 18th this year, but millions of Americans still won’t file on time, studies show. If you can predict that you’re going to be late (again) this year—if you lack the time or info to do your taxes, or if you don’t... ➡
