Jason Unger

How to Create a Budget

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This is an excerpt from Day 7 — “Create a Budget” — of Automatic Finances: 17 Days to Your Financial Freedom. Budgeting can be the most important act for anyone looking to get better control of their finances. With a budget, you establish exactly where your money is going how much you will be saving […]

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Ask the Readers: Why Did You Choose Your Bank?

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Last week, I had to open a new checking account specifically for my business, and ended up going with a totally different bank than I would have originally thought. I use Bank of America for my main personal checking, mostly because they’re all across the country and, even though I hate going, there are two […]

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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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Money Management: ToughMoneyLove

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Continuing our series on Money Management by Personal Finance Bloggers, today we’re talking to ToughMoneyLove, who blogs at the site of the same name. Yesterday, we chatted with Jeremy of Generation X Finance. Mr. ToughMoneyLove, who has one of the best “about” pages I’ve ever seen, writes at http://toughmoneylove.com and http://gotoretirement.com. How do you spend: […]

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Money Management: Generation X Finance

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Everyone manages their money a little bit differently — but how do the people who love to write about it doing it? Today, we’re going to begin a series on Money Management by Personal Finance Bloggers, highlighting prominent bloggers and how they manage their finances. I asked members of the MoneyBlogNetwork forums questions about their […]

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Ask the Readers: How Are You Improving Your Financial Situation?

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There is good news coming from the recession. Last week, we learned that American consumers have cut their their debt by $21.6 billion, the largest ever on record, with credit card usage accounting for $6.1 billion of that total. Add that to the personal savings rate hitting 6.9% in May, the highest since 1993, and […]

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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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Ask the Readers: Is Automatic Retirement Enrollment Necessary?

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Over the Labor Day weekend, President Obama unveiled a new set of initiatives to make saving for retirement easier, including automatically enrolling workers in 401(k) and Simple-IRA plans, reports the Washington Post. “The fact is, even before this recession hit, the savings rate was essentially zero, while borrowing had risen and credit card debt had […]

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Happy Labor Day

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In honor of the Labor Day holiday Monday, we’ll be taking the day off from posting a new story here at Automatic Finances. Hopefully you’re out enjoying the weather, taking a break from work or school, and getting in a BBQ to mark the official end of summer. Thanks for being a part of Automatic […]

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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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Money Hacks Carnival #80

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Welcome to the Money Hacks Carnival #80 — an awesome roundup of posts spanning investing, personal finance, frugality and making the most of your money. I won’t bore you with an introduction, so it’s on to the carnival! (But, if you’re new here, download the first three days of Automatic Finances for free!) Editor’s Picks […]

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Best of Automatic Finances: August 2009

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As the summer comes to an end, Automatic Finances will be going into the fall on a high note: visitors up 16% and pageviews up 40%. Considering that the site launched only 5 months ago, I’m thrilled with the amount of growth we’re seeing — and it’s all thanks to you. Without your support as […]

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