One of our all time favorite sites, WalletPop, has this great post on 17 extreme ways to save money: How Far Are You Willing to Go? Talk about some belt tightening! The national savings rate has skyrocketed to 6.9% — a 15 year high.Some analysts are predicting a double-digit savings rate next year as this […]

Credit card laws are changing, so you must read every update in your cardholder agreement carefully. Banks usually send these changes by mail, but many people ignore them. As a result, they miss important details that affect their payments and interest rates. For example, GE Money Bank has updated some of its credit card terms. […]

In the United States, one trillion means the number one followed by twelve zeros. In other words, it looks like 1,000,000,000,000. To understand how large this number is, it helps to think in terms of time. One year contains about 31.6 million seconds. Because of this, one trillion seconds equals roughly 31,546 years. Furthermore, six […]