Money Hacks
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This is a guest post from the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE), a non-profit dedicated to improving the financial literacy of all Americans.
Control spending: If you spend less you'll have more money available to pay down debt and save for the future. Write down your expenses for a month to see where your money [...]

I just added a new store to the Money Hacks site. I know, I'm a little late to the party, but that's my MO!
It's hosted by Amazon and it's filled with hundreds of personal finance books from authors like Jim Cramer, Andrew Tobias, George Soros, Peter Lynch, and Jim Rogers.
Check it out. There's [...]

I've recently been very lax in keeping up with the news. Last I heard, Dubai caused a minor stir in the already-screwed up credit markets, sending markets into a tizzy.
I saw on today's newspaper the big headline, "Mortgage Rates at All-Time Lows." Sheesh. Haven't we seen this TV show before?
Must we go down the same [...]

Now what?
In 12 years, Antoine Walker(notes) made more than $110 million playing professional basketball moderately well.
It always seems to happen.
Whatever the details, it was a big chunk of change, which, amazingly, wasn’t enough.
These guys seem to wind up in debtor’s prison or the poor house, or both. It’s a shame, in a way, to see [...]