Managing Your Money

Allowing your children to use debit cards is a great way to teach them how to manage money as they approach adulthood. They can learn to make deposits and withdrawals, set aside money for savings, and plan their spending. What you don’t want is to have to pay fees. Thankfully, several banks offer debit cards

In what is probably the biggest data breach in the history of data breaches, National Public Data was hacked and a massive amount of personal data was taken. National Public Data is a personal data aggregator – they collect publicly available information about people and sell it to companies doing background checks, criminal checks, and

Joint budgeting doesn’t have to be stressful. Regardless of your strategy, the best budgeting apps can make managing your money less complicated, so you can spend more time building your relationship and enjoying life. When choosing a budgeting app, there are many different strategies to consider, such as zero-based budgeting, envelope budgeting, and values-based spending.

Will interest rates go down? Yes they will. The challenge is when will they start and what can we do to prepare? According to an article in Fortune, analyst at Citi Research believe the Fed “could slash rates by 200 points over 8 straight meetings.” That would be eight cuts of 25 basis points starting

In another life, I wrote process management software for large organizations in the government. These organizations had processes that “evolved” out of years of personal relationships and massive three-ring binders. (It wasn’t until that job that I learned Excel spreadsheets had limits to the rows and columns in a sheet!) The processes had become extremely