Family Finance

In 2007, I had the opportunity to travel to Sydney, Australia, to speak at an internet marketing conference with only about three weeks’ notice.  The conference organizers wanted me to talk about hiring ghostwriters to create information products, since the conference attendees were learning how to start businesses selling ebooks online. I had two children

The holiday season seems to start earlier every year and it pretty much begins the moment Halloween ends. It is to your financial (and emotional!) benefit to take action now to manage your holiday spending to avoid breaking the budget. The more time you give yourself to plan, the better off you will be when

When people think about investing, the first things that comes to mind are investments of the financial kind.  Financial investments help you build wealth and put the power of compound interest to good use. But investing in yourself is just as important as the financial investments and savings are to your future.  While you may

Whether or not to open up a joint bank account can be an emotional decision. If you want to do it, but your partner says no, it might feel like they don’t trust you. If your partner is gung-ho about a joint account, and you’re on the fence, it can feel like they’re pressuring you

When technology first allowed bank customers to check their accounts online, it was widely predicted that paper account statements would become obsolete. But, they never did. Customers, it seemed, liked paper statements. But now, banks may finally kill off the dead-tree statement — by riddling them with fees.

Immersed inside the 80 pages of the Federal Reserve’s triennial report on the Survey of Consumer Finances are a slew of statistics that point to how our economy has contracted from 2007 to 2010. Americans, as the headline writers were quick to point out, have lost some two decades worth of gains since the economic

The Credit CARD Act passed Congress in 2009 and increased transparency in the credit card industry, made billing a more fair process, and limited to whom credit-card issuers could lend and market their products. But the rules have had an unanticipated effect on stay-at-home spouses, a matter that is currently up for debate in Washington.

Opening up a checking account should be high on an incoming college freshman’s to-do list.  Most young folks can bypass fees and avoid high initial deposits by opting for a student checking account. However, it’s still a good idea to compare and contrast products before settling on a financial institution. Here are the factors to