Archive for June 1st, 2008

01 Jun

Deciding What to Do With Your 401(k) When You Change Jobs

As many of you know, I resigned my job a couple weeks ago and since then I have started my new job. During my first week at my new job I enrolled in my benefits plans and now need to figure out what to do with my old 401(k). Basically, there are 5 options for [...]

01 Jun

Major banks in new shares crisis

Bradford & Bingley's drastic trading statement said more customers will fall into arrears and at one point it was forced to suspend shares. When trading resumed they fell by 25% to 67¼p - dragging down the value of the 'big five' banking giants.
B&B, the country's biggest buy-to-let lender, said it expected profits to [...]

01 Jun

Take another driving test to save cash

But that elation of motoring freedom may soon vanish once you discover just how much it costs. However, new drivers can go some way to easing that pain.
Insurance bills can be cut by up to a third if drivers take a Pass Plus motoring course. More experienced drivers can also slash costs through a [...]

01 Jun

Weekly Round-Up - Graduation Edition

Hello everyone, it’s that time of year again… high school and college students around the country are graduating and heading on to the next stage of their lives. Next week my wife and I will travel to TX to visit my family and watch my little sister graduate high school. Then she’s off to college [...]

01 Jun

Save us from our 20-year debt torment

What is the point, other than to bully and terrify the borrower? These are the questions Geoff and Bronia Booker are asking of Lloyds TSB.
The Bookers ran into money trouble in the late Eighties. Geoff, now 51, owned a building firm that went bust. What began as a £1,500 overdraft turned into a loan [...]

01 Jun

Rural living in a world with expensive fuel

By Philip Brewer

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