Archive for December, 2010
Ask Stacy: 8 Tips to Get Credit When You Don’t Have Any
Building a credit history was never easy, especially when starting out or starting over. And the credit crunch of the last few years has made the process more difficult, as even those with stellar credit have had their credit reduced or even shut down entirely. That makes the following recent email a perfect jumping off [...]
10 Tips to Save on Makeup
Watch video above – read story below Everybody wants to look their best. But at what cost? According to a 2008 study by nonprofit YWCA, women spend $7 billion a year on cosmetics. Meanwhile, The Bureau of Labor Statistics says Americans – so this figure is averaged across men and women – spent about $600 [...]
Be Car-ful on New Year’s Eve – and Day
Watch video above – read story below In the 2000 movie Gone in Sixty Seconds, Nicholas Cage and Angelina Jolie steal 50 cars in one night and barely get away with it. If only their characters knew what the National Insurance Crime Bureau knows, they could have stolen all those cars on New Year’s Day – [...]
2010: Not So Bad for the Rich or Government Executives
The president may have recently extended the Bush tax cuts for the next two years, but the average American’s pocketbook didn’t fare so well in 2010. The national unemployment rate is higher than it’s been all millennium – averaging 9.6 percent as the year wraps up – according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. [...]
3 Tips for Choosing the Right Doctor
Here’s an unhealthy fact: Americans trust nurses and pharmacists more than they trust the doctors who hire those nurses and write their prescriptions. Earlier this month, Gallup released its annual Honesty and Ethics survey – and for the 11th straight year, nurses ranked first. Here’s the top 5, along with the percentage of Americans who [...]
Money Talks Top 10 Stories for 2010
It’s been a great year for Money Talks News. This year we had more than 2 million people visit our site – nearly 10 times the number we had in 2009. And we had millions more read (and watch) our stories on sites like Yahoo, MSN Money, Reader’s Digest, and many others. If you’re one [...]
The Best Time to Buy a Car? Now
Watch video above – read story below In this economy, a lot of people are putting off big purchases like cars because their budgets are just too tight. But as we mentioned in another article today, some people can’t put it off any longer. If you’re one of those people, here’s some good news: One [...]
30 Things Babies Born in 2011 Will Never Know
Huffington Post recently put up a story called You’re Out: 20 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade. It’s a great retrospective on the technology leaps we’ve made since the new century began, and it got me thinking about the difference today’s technology will make in the lives of tomorrow’s kids. I’ve used some of their [...]
Despite Weak Economy, Car Shoppers Say They Can’t Wait Any Longer
With the economy still down, used car prices are up. And as we reported last Wednesday, gas prices are also rising. So why are many Americans planning to buy a car in 2011? Well, we just can’t put it off any longer, claims car-buying website Autobytel in a new survey of its users it released this month. “Almost [...]
The Short Answer: Quick Reader Questions of 2010
Every Friday, Money Talks News founder Stacy Johnson answers reader email in his “Ask Stacy” column. But he’s only one man, and there are often dozens of good questions every week, so we never get around to answering them all. Some of those good questions require in-depth answers that Stacy simply can’t sum up in [...]