Last year I wrote about helping teenage children fund their IRAs in order to boost their long term retirement savings. The more years for compounding the better we are when it comes to retirement savings. There are of course different goals that young adults have when they enter the real …
Student loans in this country top over $1 trillion. It is not uncommon to see people graduate from college with $100,000 in student loans hanging around their neck, which won’t get paid for 10, 20, or even 30 years. I think with any type of job training there has to …
For the most part I prefer to buy things instead of renting, but when it comes to text books for college, renting may be very advantageous. When I was in college I would try to buy my books used off of half.com, and from time to time I would get …
When it comes to education costs, there are a myriad of ways to save money. In my article Planning and Paying For College I touched on the usefulness of taking CLEP exams. CLEP exams are simply a test you take to demonstrate you have the knowledge in a subject equivalent to …