finances

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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Ask the Readers: What's Financial Freedom to You?

On this 4th of July weekend, Americans across the country are celebrating independence and freedom (our friends to the north did earlier this week on Canada Day). But when it comes to your finances, you may not be as free as you'd like. Are you buried in debt? Are you living beyond your means? Or [...]

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Weekend Linkage: Spring Cleaning, Service Discounts and Entrepreneurship

Now that spring has officially arrived (both on the calendar and in the forecasts), it's a great time to do a bit of cleaning of your life: your finances, your bills and your career. The Dough Roller starts it off with 10 Tips to Declutter Your Finances. These ten tips fall right in line with [...]

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Can You Live a Completely Paperless Lifestyle?

As you spend more time banking online and paying your bills online, you'll realize that getting paper statements just seems outdated. Why do you need to get snail mail from your bank or service provider when you have access to a digital archive of all your actions? You don't. Living a completely paperless financial lifestyle, [...]

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Hi. I'm Jason and My Finances are on Autopilot.

Hello there, and welcome to Automatic Finances! My name is Jason and, yes, my finances are on autopilot. What does that mean, exactly? Let's see… My bills pay themselves every month I automatically save for retirement without trying to time the market My paycheck goes straight into my bank account every two weeks My short-term [...]

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