Archive for the ‘Finance’ Category

Stay the course with investments

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

With the stock market as risky as ever, I saw an interesting piece on CNN today. They showed ROI for 10K for the past decade. They showed the statistic in two different views: one was the value of 10K if you didn’t touch your money while the other was the value of 10K if you missed (more…)

Tips for keeping credit card debt low.

Friday, March 7th, 2008

With the APR on credit cards around 18% interest, one can get into a lot of trouble if they rack up too many bills and make only the minimum payment on their card.  Although young, I steer clear of using my credit card whenever I can.  I follow some simple rules when deciding whether to use a credit card when making a purchase:

  1.  How long (more…)

Project Lifeline overshadows homeowners poor management of funds.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Project lifeline was announced today to give homeowners facing foreclosure 30 extra days to resolve their ordeal with their lender in an attempt to prevent the number of foreclosures from piling up to higher totals. This entire housing crunch could have been easily avoided had the homeowners (more…)