May 2009
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Celebrities Help Us Get Un-Broke Tonight on ABC
What do Will Smith, Samuel L. Jackson, the Jonas Brothers, Christian Slater, Cedric the Entertainer, Seth Green, Oscar the Grouch, Rosario Dawson and the E*Trade Babies know about personal finance? Hopefully a lot, because tonight they’re all participating in a one-hour ABC Special called UN-BROKE: What You Need to Know About Money. I found out [...]
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Comments (5)Parents Bamboozled by FreeCreditReport.com
Before I can tell you this story, a few things need to be mentioned. First of all, this is not an indictment of my parents in any way, or a mockery of them for being “stupid.” They were mislead by a clever advertising campaign, just as many other people were before them. Secondly, it is [...]
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18-Year-Olds and Credit Cards: Discussion Continues
Earlier this week I brought up the proposal in the Senate-passed CARD Act (Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act) which would require adults under the age of 21 to get a cosigner in order to get a credit card (or prove significant income, whatever that means – don’t we have to do that anyway?). [...]
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May Savings Snowball Update
My savings have seen a sort of whirlwind of activity as of late, which made me realize it’s been a while since I last checked in and let you know how things are doing. Well, there’s good news, and there’s bad. Just as a reminder, here’s what my “savings snowball” looked like the last time [...]
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Credit Card Reform Treats College Students Like Babies?
By now, you may have heard of a little something called the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009, which was just recently passed by the US Senate. It differs a bit from it’s predecessor, the Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights Act of 2009, which was passed by the House of Representatives. [...]
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SmartyPig Walkthrough: Setting Up My “New Car Fund”
I’ve been thinking of trying out SmartyPig for a while now. SmartyPig is basically an online savings account (like ING Direct or Emigrant Direct, etc.), but it has a few unique features. First of all, you choose savings goals for your SmartyPig savings accounts. I love this, because most of us fail when we “just [...]
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Using ING Sub-Accounts to Save Hundreds on Student Loans
The time has come: May is the first month that my first student loan bill is due. I have three student loan bills, actually, and indentifying them now will make this little tale easier to tell: The first is a Direct Stafford Loan, from the government, consisting of both subsidized and unsubsidized loans. It is [...]
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Take Some College Courses This Summer
This is a guest post from the blogger behind Studenomics a personal finance blog that offers common sense advice for college students and recent graduates. Studenomics is the ultimate resource for young people looking for advice on how to survive this current recession, grow their careers, manage their finances, and still be able to enjoy [...]
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Leveraging Social Network Tools in Your Job Search
The following post is part of a two-week-long series on Graduating From College During a Recession, presented by the members of the College Money Network. You can get all of the posts in this series and more by subscribing to the College Money Network RSS feed. As an internet savvy job-hunter, you’ve probably already found [...]
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Graduating College During a Recession Round-Up
The members of the College Money Network are in the middle of a two-week-long series on Graduating From College During a Recession. You can get all of the posts in this series and more by subscribing to the College Money Network RSS feed. But for your convenience, here are the posts in the series thus [...]
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