Credit Scores and Insurance Premiums

Posted May 12th, 2010

What Do Credit Scores Have To Do With Insurance?
You may wonder why your credit scores affect the premiums you may pay for insurance, and if you do, you are not the only one! How is your credit?
Believe it or not, you will hear a lot more about this in the coming year. And it will [...]

Are American Consumers Becoming Cheapskates

Posted May 4th, 2010

Is This The Frugal Decade In The US?
America has always been known as a nation of consumers. And yet the past recession may have changed us into a more frugal society.  Top economist tell us there is a growing trend among the middle and upper middle class to become savers instead of spenders. You can [...]

Advantages of Fixed Annuities for Retirement Accounts

Posted September 22nd, 2009

Fixed annuity contracts are one very common way to save for retirement. People usually purchase annuities in order to reach some sort of medium to long range savings goal, which could include having a guaranteed payout at retirement.  We want to help you understand how these can be valuable tools for retirement planning by listing [...]

How to Tell If Money is Fake

Posted June 17th, 2009

Is CounterFeit Money a Big Problem?
Well, whenever money is tight, as in today’s struggling economy, there will be a lot more temptation to pass fake money. Also, some organizations that may be against the government may wish to to launder fake money for real money. But, all told, the amount of conterfeit money in the [...]

Insurance Cost Too Much?

Posted December 30th, 2008

Do You Pay Too Much For Insurance?
I don’t know about you, but sometimes it seems like all of my money goes to pay an insurer to cover something. I need auto insurance, as most of you do, to comply with state laws, and also to protect myself in case I have a car accident. My [...]

Recession Survival Tips

Posted November 20th, 2008

I think the experts have been debating the recession for several months now, and they finally blew the whistle and decided to admit that hard times are here. While the talking heads have been, well, talking, we have been browsing through top recession survival tips for ourselves and decided to share our picks here.

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Surviving A Recession

Posted October 10th, 2008

We are all facing tough economic times. There is not denying it, though it seems like until the last few months, the politicians and big business leaders have tried! But now that everybody is forced to face reality, let us look at a few things that consumers can do to survive these days of a [...]