This guest post comes from Michael, a contributing editor of the Dough Roller, a personal finance and investing blog, and Credit Card Offers IQ, a credit card review site. I’m willing to bet that if you turned on CNBC, CNN or MSNBC right now, within 10 minutes you would hear ...

Today the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Janet L. Yellen said that a sharp increase in worker productivity was “here to stay.” She predicted that unemployment, now at 9.7 percent, would fall to 9.25 percent by the end of the year and around 8 percent by the ...

Over the weekend I caught up on some blog reading and found an old post from The Simple Dollar where Trent discussed the differences in today’s budgets from those of our parents. It was an interesting post, and the comments provided more food for thought. I began inventorying our own ...