One of the ways that you can grow wealth over time is to invest. Unfortunately, many Americans don’t understand how to get started. According to a recent survey from NerdWallet Investing, 81% of Americans don’t know that a brokerage account is needed to invest online. (This doesn’t mean that 81% of Americans aren’t investing at […]
Perhaps you’ve heard about the big settlement last year between merchants and credit card issuers regarding interchange fees. Those are the “swipe” fees that merchants have to pay in order to process credit card payments. Not only did this settlement determine that merchants will receive a $7.2 billion payment for past interchange fees and a […]
With the US Congress in a fuss over financial changes scheduled for the beginning of next year, the “fiscal cliff” is approaching. The left and right cannot seem to agree on what’s best for the country, so changes seem unavoidable. This set of changes would affect federal spending and tax laws, and in turn, nearly […]
While I’ve heard plenty in the news about the debt crisis in Europe, I have to admit that I haven’t paid a great deal of attention. Not only are the roots of this crisis very difficult for a lay-person to understand, but it seems as though the economic woes in Europe are pretty far removed […]
It’s hard to avoid discussions of the so-called fiscal cliff that’s looming at the end of 2012. We can only hope that our leaders hammer out a compromise before the deadline. But if we do end up “falling off” the fiscal cliff, who will be most hurt by the changes? There are three groups that […]
The 90s era television show Northern Exposure was based on a pretty ridiculous premise: Born and bred New Yorker Joel Fleischman moves to a tiny town in Alaska after finishing his medical degree because the town had paid for his schooling in exchange for his relocation there. That was the only way the small Alaskan […]
