Archive for August, 2012
6 Steps to Giving Your Teen Credit
Teenagers know a lot of things adults don’t – from deftly using social media to finding the perfect smartphone apps. But they apparently don’t know much about money. ING Direct and Capital One recently surveyed teens ages 12 to 17 on their financial knowledge. Only 17 percent claimed to know a lot about money. When [...]
How to Track the Money in Politics
Who made that annoying political ad, and who paid for it? Most importantly, is it accurate? New apps and Web tools can help you find out. The Huffington Post recently rounded up tech tools to track campaign ad funding – especially “Super PACs,” those political action committees empowered by a 2010 Supreme Court ruling that [...]
For Labor Day – 5 Tips to Labor Less
According to the CIA, the average American should expect to live about 78.5 years, or 41,259,600 minutes. If you’re lucky, you’re going to spend about a third of those minutes sleeping. With those that remain, the idea is to spend as many as you can doing what you want to do rather than what you [...]
Teen Drivers are Hypocrites
Money Talks News now features an Insurance Shopping Tool that allows you to compare rates on Auto, Health, Home and Motorcycle insurance. Check it out! The good news from a new survey released by State Farm is that almost four in five teens (78 percent) have chided a driver who gets distracted by their phone. [...]
Chocolate Is Healthy for Men
While tons of advertising dollars go into marketing chocolate to women, a newly released study suggests it has health benefits for men – if eaten in moderation. The 10-year study involved more than 37,000 Swedish men between 49 and 75 years old and was published in the academic journal Neurology. The conclusion: “Those who ate [...]
Lower Salary, More Flexibility?
Yesterday NBC News wrote about a new survey from staffing firm Mom Corps (great name) which found people would take a pay cut for more flexible work. The article doesn’t say how many people the group talked to, but “nearly half of working adults surveyed (45 percent) are willing to give up some percentage of [...]
Sweeter Diet Pepsi?
If you drink diet soda, you may soon have an option to reconsider. The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch reports Diet Pepsi might be getting a little sweeter. The company is considering tweaking the formula to fix the taste supposedly lost in transportation: The goal is to have a Diet Pepsi formula in the U.S. that [...]
Ask an Expert: Getting a Credit Card for Emergencies
I review dozens of credit card offers each week to find the best deals. Check out more on our credit card page. Have a question? Email me. A Money Talks News reader recently caught my attention with this compelling story… In 2006, I was in a car accident that left me a widow and quadriplegic at age 37. Since then, [...]
Today’s Deals: Asian, Italian, and Almost-Free Ice Cream
I subscribe to the promotional emails of hundreds of companies so you don’t have to. I sift through 1,000 deal-touting emails every week. Most are worthless. But some offer valuable coupons, promo codes, sales, and freebies – which I collect and organize here and on our deals page. Note: Expiration dates are in brackets. Groceries [...]
Credit Unions: Better for College Students – and Many Others
Last week, we wrote about an analysis of senior checking accounts and mentioned a similar study of student accounts. A company called NerdWallet then contacted us about some research of their own on student checking accounts, comparing on-campus banks and credit unions. Some quick findings… Credit unions have a lower average overdraft fee: $28 compared [...]