Weekend Linkage

Weekend Linkage: Debit Cards, Debt Free and Emergency Funds

While most of the Weekend Linkage posts tend to highlight stories from personal finance bloggers, this week, we're showcasing two links from the granddaddy publisher of them all: the New York Times. I've ragged on the mainstream media before for not knowing how to publish useful personal finance content, but the Times comes through with [...]

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Weekend Linkage: Cutting Debt, Checkbook Balancing and Bad Habits

There's good news on the economic front: in July, American consumers cut their debt by $21.6 billion, the largest amount ever on record, according to Yahoo News. Consumers' appetite for revolving credit, primarily credit cards, declined by $6.1 billion in July, an annualized rate of 8 percent that followed a 6.4 percent drop in June. [...]

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Weekend Linkage: Coupons, Credit Scores and Cut Backs

Do you know the best way to boost your credit score? In this economy, as our friends in the media love to say, it's not easy to get your credit score high — and then keep it there. Visual Economics, who created the amazing graphics on paychecks and credit cards, offers these 4 tips for [...]

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Weekend Linkage: Goldman Sachs, Passive Investing, and Txting $

Looking for some good summer reading? There's not much time left before schools start up again, the beaches start to clear out, and football gets into full swing. This week, Rolling Stone has a massive story on Goldman Sachs, where it claims that the investment bank "has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great [...]

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Weekend Linkage: Buy and Hold, Overdrafts and the Internet Revolution

As we get into the middle of August and closer to the end of summer, we'll start to get back into the swing of things. And as employment numbers "get better" — meaning less people are filing for unemployment — and the stock market ticks back up, perhaps brighter days are right around the corner. [...]

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Weekend Linkage: Bad Habits, Automatically Poor, and the Recession

While things are looking up in this economy — the Dow hits 9000, housing sales are up and companies are reporting better-than-expected results — it's still tough out there. Some are even suggesting that we're only in the first third of the recession. But just because times are difficult doesn't mean you can't do better [...]

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