money issues

Credit cards may make our lives twice as easy, but they can just as easily make it three times as difficult. And we’re not talking about the kind of difficult where you find out that a box of Corn Pops has sent you over your measly credit limit.

Parents taking out a crippling loan to ensure that their child has a good education is nothing new. However, they usually wait until the child is in a grade that doesn’t have a finger painting class before they start slowly going into debt.

Ford Motor Co. may have been able to weather the total collapse of the economy and struggling American car market. Can it weather a massive recall on one of their signature cars?

Celebrity scents are all the rage, with many starlets slapping their name on bottles of perfume, appearing in print ads and hawking them mercilessly. Some are even intrinsically involved in the creation process and work in the labs when choosing accords and notes. It’s certainly another way to brand oneself in addition to being an incredibly profitable revenue stream. Taylor Swift has done it, but

So if you keep your credit card safely stowed in your wallet or purse, and you always shred or burn your statements, then you should be safe from identity theft right?  Don't bet your balance on it.

Okay, the little "sting" we started feeling at the gas pump over the last several weeks has turned into  a full blown wound....and is likely to once again cripple our great nation.  Prices are getting closer to $4.00 a gallon every day and the question becomes whether Americans are going to start to seriously changing their current driving habits and vacation plans, in light of this hike

Ryan Kitching’s mom had been nagging him to clean his room, as moms tend to do. When the 19-year-old from Midlothian, Scotland finally relented and attacked the mess, he found 12 old lottery tickets. Figuring they must all be losers, he thought about throwing the tickets out with the rest of the junk. But then he had a “strange feeling” that he should check the numbers, and when he did, he was ne

If you’re one of those impatient people who gets a refund anticipation loan (RAL) from a tax preparer, enjoy it while it lasts — after this year, those loans are going away. And it’s probably for your own good.

Fat Tuesday took on a whole new meaning earlier this week at a Florida casino, where gamblers were given a dime in slot machine credits for every pound they weighed.

Drove by the gas pump this morning; literally, I drove by.  Didn't stop because I thought something was wrong with it.  Couldn't believe my eyes when the price showed 3.44 a gallon.  Seems like just last week it was only 3.31.  I make 3....

In this economy, people are lucky just to have a job. Which is perhaps why the majority of Americans would pick job security over higher pay, if given the choice.