Finance Archive
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Chanukah in August
We’ve all felt the pain of that late January credit card statement. Sure, Amazon’s suggestion to buy hundreds of dollars worth of Elmo-related products on December 21st (to qualify for free shipping!) seemed like a great idea, but come Christmas morning, your niece is terrified of that pair of roaring Elmo Tickle Hands you bought [...] -
Why You Should Check Out Peer to Peer Lending
You’ve probably heard murmurs about Peer2Peer lending recently, and maybe thought that the concept made sense in theory, but then got distracted by hearing that Richard “Boner” Stabbone had tragically passed away and lost your train of thought. P2P lending, in essence, is loaning very small amounts of money directly to a person that needs it [...] -
Basic Shit to Get Your Retirement Plan Going in Your 20s
I know 59 and ½ sounds really far away when you are just starting your career and trying to make enough to pay your rent. You probably have, at the very least, thousands of dollars of student loans, a ton of credit card debt, and a lengthy list of unnecessary expenses that you’re pissing away [...] -
Swiping the Discover Card Clean of Shame
Admit it. Back in the day, the Discover card kind of used to be considered the Geo Metro of the credit world. Barely any merchants accepted it, and whipping it out in public was an embarrassing proclamation of poor credit. That all seemed to change somewhere between 1995 and the present, and the benefits of [...]
