By Brian J. O’Connor
Who says procrastination doesn’t pay? It just saved me about $126 — and a trip to the mall, too.
That’s not because I missed the rutabaga-raisin-tinis during happy hour at Chotchkie’s, but because I didn’t take my boy, Li’l Money, back-to-school shopping.
According to a National Retail Federation survey, my not moving off the [...]
By Steve Rosen
Learning happens most easily by doing, insists psychologist and financial educator Brad Klontz. Consider him Exhibit A.
Klontz imagined during the dot-com craze a decade ago that he’d become a millionaire just like his friends. He sold nearly everything he had of value and plowed the money into the stock market.
Then he nearly went [...]
By Donna Freedman
As children, we fear the nameless monster under the bed, but we grow out of it (usually). A financial boogeyman doesn’t go away. It hovers, and it whispers:
* People like us never get anywhere.
* You don’t earn enough money to save, let alone invest.
* You’ll never get out of debt.
We’re usually not consciously [...]
Drs. Ted & Brad Klontz are working with Park Slope Productions, Inc in NYC to cast an upcoming documentary that will be featuring individuals suffering from severe financial problems and money disorders.
If financial issues have taken over your life or damaged key relationships but you feel you are ready to make a change, Park [...]
by Brad Tuttle
Why do some people take their roles as consumers literally and consume and consume and consume—purchasing items they don’t need, splurging on silly gifts (for friends and themselves) without pausing to consider costs, hitting the mall whenever they’re feeling down or bored, and digging themselves huge amounts of credit card debt in the [...]
By Pamela Yip
Jacqui Payne wanted to be just like her friends, and credit cards were the means to get there.
“I had this impression that people who had credit cards were somebody, so I set out to have credit cards,” she said. “I always felt that I wanted my friends to see me as an equal. [...]
By Christopher Behnan
Has billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates or the late Mother Teresa of Calcutta done more for their fellow man?
If given an option between all the money or all the love in the world, which would you choose?
How you answer those questions will determine your financial future, according to Ted Klontz, a Tennessee-based financial [...]
by Laura Rowley
Karina Carretero and Kian Kaeni, both 33, have known each other since he sat behind her in English class at their southern California high school in the mid-90s. They started dating in 2003 and married four years later. They have a 1-year-old daughter and are trying to save a down payment for a [...]
Want to build wealth in lean and flush times? It’s easy. Just tame your brain
By Richard Sine
Step 1: Tune out the noise
You felt rich back in 2008, and now you feel poor. You’re not alone: As of late last year, nearly 80 percent of wealthy Americans had consciously reduced or deferred their spending, according to [...]
Belonging at all costs; Running with the Herd
Have you ever been in the middle of a stampede?
If you’re imagining thundering hooves stirring up clouds of dust, the answer will almost certainly be no. (Otherwise you wouldn’t be here to answer at all.) But the fact is, everyone who’s ever been a member of a [...]
