I don’t know about you, but I’m not really interested in working with my bank anymore for much. They don’t seem very interested in working with me either with everything going on with the credit industry and the economy.

I used to think it was just my bank that was annoying to work with and seemed to make their processes so ambiguous they could charge you fees for seemingly nothing. After speaking with more people about their banks though and it appears it’s just status quo.
The Zopa website lets you avoid all the official banking institutions and borrow money from the …read more

With the future economy situation staring us in the face, I can tell you one thing, figuring out how to educate my kids on a couple of different things:

Teach them how to not make the same mistakes that I have as a child, teenager, college student and now an adult.
Teach them how to be flexible and understand how to adjust what they know and learn to the current financial situation.

I came across this article from GreatSchools entitled "Smart Money: Seven Ways to Raise a Financially Literate Child".
Some of these items may be obvious, others may share a nugget of additional …read more