Raise your credit score at any age
The best ways to build excellent credit are much different in your 20s than in your 50s. Your age often affects how you balance your budget, saving for retirement and …
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Six money mistakes that savers make
If you’re spending tons of time and gas mileage hunting down coupon deals, think again. Here are some more common financial traps when we aim to be too frugal. Falling …
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Easy ways to boost your credit score
These measures may make the difference between having a score of 550 and 780. To improve your credit score seem intimidating? It need not be. Taking a few small steps …
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8 Shopping traps to avoid at the mall
Though today’s shopping traps may look more sophisticated than in the past, their aim is the same as yesterday’s misleading advertising — not to save me money but to get …
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Most embarrassing credit problems
You never want to hear your waiter say, “Sorry, your card was declined.” For people with bad credit, hard times are inevitable. When they occur, you can dig a deep …
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Six ways to a better credit score
Paying off certain types of debt can lift your score much more than others. Millions of consumers have fallen out of favor with the credit scoring gods. Some lost their …
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Tax deductions with the biggest payouts
$6,000 for setting up an IRA is paltry compared with the $37,000 for another transaction. A $5,000 or $6,000 deduction for IRA contributions, a $4,000 deduction for college tuition and …
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Riskiest places to use your credit card
Sign up for automatic subscription billing online, and you might keep getting charged after canceling. Even if you use the utmost caution, you can still be a victim of credit …
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The 10 best shopping cities in the U.S.
New York, long thought to be the top spot in the nation, doesn’t even make the list. Move over New York. When it comes to shopping, everything’s bigger in Texas. …
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The Secret of Online Holiday Spending
Now that the holidays have decided to move into the express lane of time and travel towards us at the speed of light, we had better ready ourselves for the …
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