Moms know that staying home with the kids is an important job, perhaps the most important job that a woman can have. Unfortunately, few moms can afford to give up all of the income they’ve been contributing to the family coffers...

To many people the word budget implies something constraining and negative. But a budget is really nothing more than a spending plan. By planning how and when you will spend your money, you are really just living within a budget...

If you are currently thinking about starting your own check cashing business, there are things that you first need to consider. The path leading from conceptualization to realization can be a scary and uncertain route, and it is difficult for most people to know the proper steps to take...

People make all kinds of excuses as to why they cannot get involved in investing or trading the financial markets. In this article, some of the most prominent are debunked. "I don’t have time" Despite being one of the most frequently heard, this is probably the most pathetic excuse for not trading there is...

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I don’t know about you, but it seems like most people today can’t make ends meet. Ask around for an honest opinion and you’ll discover soon enough that that’s true. In fact, it is downright difficult and almost impossible to make ends meet these days! We’re simply stretched too thin! Expenses rise and with it the cost of living, but our income doesn’t rise as quickly! So what options do we have since our income can no longer remain parallel to our expenses? What can we do to make ends meet? And even if we do make ends meet, what then? How can we get ahead? We may have the best intentions when we use our credit cards and when we budget through the month, but it is tough! And we may end up using our credit cards more and more until the bills get higher...

Stock option trading has always given the traders additional work of not just predicting correctly the security’s price. They also must choose the best option for trading strategies. But most stock traders incorrectly figure they can easily make the change from stocks to options...

Andrew Hagger Head of News and Press at Moneyfacts.co.uk looks at the performance of Child Trust Funds, one year on. April 6 2006 marked the first birthday for the Child Trust Fund (CTF), and there are undoubtedly some mums and dads out there who are feeling pretty smug with the performance of the investment that they have chosen...

“Babe” Didrickson Zaharias was a phenomenal athlete. This Texan ran, jumped, rode horses, and played basketball and baseball—with tremendous flair. In the Olympic tryouts in 1932, she won five first places in track and field events...

Banking online has become the quickest growing internet activity, with nearly 4 million users already managing accounts, and paying their bills through a virtual bank. With the convenience and ease of online banking, everyone seems to be in on the newest trend...

Copyright 2006 Geoff Gannon Whenever a large investment has been made in a particular area, whenever there is a lot capital, people, and ego tied up with some operation, the transition away from that operation is apt to be far slower than what an objective observer would have expected...

Do you put all of your money into some safe CD’s to earn interest, or buy a biotech index fund to grab the next big move in genomic cancer drugs; or something in between? The world of investment options and strategies grows every year, so I’ll provide a simple tactic to boost your returns over the course of your investing career...

Price Earning Growth (PEG) Ratio is the ratio of a company's P/E with its growth rate. A lot of analysts have concurred that a stock is fairly valued when its PEG ratio equal one. This means that if a stock has a P/E of 10 with a growth rate of 10%, then the stock is trading at fair value...

Turning Gold Into Money Gold is one of the most dynamic elements of the modern economy and some might find it funny that the oldest form of valuing physical commodities is still thriving today. The first gold coins were produced in 700 BC and since then the precious metal has been used as the primary exchange element...

Copyright 2006 Geoff Gannon Maintenance Cap-Ex The nice thing about having low capital spending, is the pleasant surprise it creates. You find a company that is earning more (economically) than other companies with the same GAAP numbers...