12 Epic Financial Failures
Hollywood has always had flops, really big flops, and then it’s had “Zyzzyx Road.” This 2006 thriller starring Katherine Heigl...
Hidden Millionaires: Lessons From Unconventional Money Management
The last generation of frugal millionaires saw the careful preservation of cash and conservative personal finance as essential to survival....
Live Debt-Free
To hear the media tell it, Americans are basket cases when it comes to borrowing. The average credit card balance...
Three Simple Steps to Financial Security
Before being put together, jigsaw puzzle pieces don't mean much. They're nothing but a blur of color and befuddling shapes....
How to Create a Budget
If you’ve been following along and setting up Quicken as you work through this guide, you now know where your...
Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck
In this economic climate, more of us are struggling to pay the bills, buy groceries and fill up our gas...
How to Set Financial Goals
You probably don't expect to attain great wealth in your lifetime. Simple financial security would do, if only you knew...
How to Plug the Holes
One good reason to endure the occasional drudgery of budgeting is that it alerts you to trouble while you still...
Personal Budgeting: Keep More Cash
Congratulations! You have kept the U.S. economy afloat by opening up your wallet for everything from cars to candy bars.
Build Your Budget
Think of your budget as a planning device, a means of setting and reaching your personal finance goals. You project...
Take a Financial Inventory
If you’re on top of your regular income and outgo, then maybe you can safely skip this section to personal...
Family Budgeting: Thrive on One Paycheck
For Raffi and Elaine Boloyan, both 32, stretching their income became doubly-challenging when they chose to cut their income by...
Budgeting: Stretch a Small Income
It’s tough enough to make ends meet in a pricey city like San Francisco. It’s even tougher when you’re a...
Investments: Set Goals and Adopt a Strategy
Investment goals tend to be long-term: enough to pay college tuition starting in ten years, for instance, or enough to...
Save Money on Phone, Internet and TV
Bundle your services and you'll save some green. For about $100 a month, you can get cable or satellite TV,...
Save Money on Utilities
Here are 15 quick, cheap and easy ways to cut your electricity, heat and water use, while also cutting your...
Save Money on Transportation
The average cost of owning and driving a car 15,000 miles a year is $8,121 according to the American Automobile...
Save Money on Practically Everything
Want to save a buck? How about a few hundred or a couple thousand?