Article Archive for April 2012
How to No Cost Refinance Before it’s Too Late
I’ve focused mainly on personal finance issues the past couple months, but I wanted to shift gears today to real estate. Real estate has gotten a bad rap in the recent years due to the …
Getting Away From Internet Job Searches: Networking Tips for Young Professionals
With unemployment at 8.2% as of March 2012, many Americans find themselves relying on the same unsuccessful job hunting tactics. Recent graduates are stuck looking for work in an extremely saturated job market where supply …
How a Mutual Fund’s Expense Ratio Impacts Your Bottom Line
There are literally thousands of mutual funds out there and many of them claim to be diversified, low cost, low fee, etc. But if there’s one thing that has the most direct impact on a …
How to Use a Virtual Credit Card
You may have heard about the recent Global Payments Breach in which credit card data for over 1.5 million users was exposed to hackers. Although this is only a fraction of the billion credit cards currently …
The Social Media Bubble: Facebook Just Bought Instagram for $1 Billion
No matter who you are, one billion dollars is a ton of money. But to Facebook, this is barely 1% of it’s estimated $100 billion value. Facebook’s looming IPO has drawn Google like valuations of …
Help Me Buy Something with My Tax Refund
I just received my yearly merit increase: a whopping 3% to stay right in line with inflation. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very appreciative of the extra money, but in the grand scheme of things, …
Your Take on the Health Care Law
This past week, the Supreme Court wrapped up three days of oral arguments over the health care law. At stake is the health care law’s individual mandate that would require most citizens to have health …
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