You’ve probably heard of Discover Financial Services, a publicly traded company (NYSE: DFS) that offers consumer-friendly credit cards like the Discover it Card. According to the Nilson Report, it’s ...
As an American adult of (ahem) a certain age, I can’t help noticing how much more things cost now than they did when I was a kid. Since the 1980s, the price of a gallon of milk has risen from around ...
Before you can start looking for an apartment for rent, you first need to figure out how much rent you can afford per month. Property managers and landlords compare your income to the rent before ...
Nervous about bear markets, crashes, and corrections? Equities offer outstanding returns in the long term, but their volatility can be terrifying in the short term, especially for new investors.
So you’ve been working to make a budget and have been diligently putting in all of your income and expenses. Yet every month, it’s the same result: you continue to overspend. While your efforts to ...
Today’s freelancers, work-at-home parents, and small-business owners have more choices than ever when it comes to accounting and bookkeeping services. Gone are the days when you needed to collect ...
We all like to think of ourselves as rational consumers. When we buy Product A instead of Product B, we think we’re doing it because we’ve carefully weighed the pros and cons – price, quality, and so ...
Getting a raise always feels great. It’s tangible proof that you’re good at what you do and your hard work has been recognized. But what should you do with the extra income? While most of us can’t ...
Are you worried about a recession wreaking havoc on your portfolio? No company or sector is completely immune to recessions, yet some do far better than others during periods of upheaval. If the ...
There’s a lot of hype around millennials, especially when it comes to money. Are they richer or poorer than previous generations were? Strapped with more debt? Better or worse educated? Obviously, you ...
What would you guess is the minimum income a single parent needs to get by in the U.S.? Using 2020 data from MIT’s Living Wage Calculator, it’s possible to tally up this amount for each state. The ...