Unless your last name is Trump or you were recently the last “Survivor” in Somoa, you’ll probably need a mortgage to purchase a home. Not many folks can afford to pay cash for a more than $100,000 purchase. But to get a mortgage, you
Today, I’m guest posting at Tinfoil Tiara on the CantonRep.com. It’s not likely that our nation’s poor math skills caused the housing crisis or the Great Recession, but it’s likely being confident in math can help you stay out of debt and
Today, I welcome Annie Logue, a terrific writer who specializes in business and economics. When she offered to write a guest post about the difference between good and bad debt (with a particular emphasis on student loans), I jumped at the
How about these scary statistics: 1. In the U.S. student loan debt is huge. Last year alone, students took out $117 billion in federal student loans. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimates that the total U.S. debt has now exceeded $1 trillion. And
There may be no more confusing place for math than with credit and debt — and there may be no more important place for A+ math skills than with your money. That’s why I was asked to guest post at credit.com’s
I don’t usually post on Sundays, but with Geithner’s debt-ceiling deadline looming on Tuesday, I wanted to share this really great video. Using some math and graphs, the narrator explains the debt, deficit and debt ceiling in ways that even your 4th
As I was planning my posts for the week, I came across this fantastic video about the U.S. deficit and debt. At first I had it scheduled for Friday, but with Geithner’s debt ceiling deadline looming on Tuesday, I decided you would