Archive of Personal Finance Stories & Tips
Since we’ve hit the midway point this year, I thought it would be helpful to offer an archive of Yahoo!Finance columns for the first half of 2010, with links to the stories (they can be tricky to find on the site). Here are the stories, from this week’s column going back to January (click on the headline to see this post in one column):
July 8: How Much Money Do You Need to Be Satisfied? Two new research papers argue that money can buy life satisfaction, but not happy feelings — and that earnings beyond $75,000 a year don’t buy a lot more happiness.
July 1: Surprising Ways to Boost Your Finances: This column reveals new research with some unexpected strategies to help you build savings and attack debt.
June 24: Unique Job Search Tactics That Work: How to stand out in a haystack when all the needles look the same.
June 17: The Happiness of Choosing Wisely: Framing life in terms of choice is hard work, but can offer rich rewards.
June 10: Five Ways to Minimize Your Credit Card Pain: The New CARD Act may not protect you in the ways you expect.
June 3: Making the Most of Irrational Behavior: A new book by Duke psychologist Dan Ariely shows how to transform foolish impulses into greater happiness.
May 26: Boost Wealth By Sharing Financial Chores: Studies find the way couples split financial tasks makes a difference in both money and happiness.
May 19: Starving for Yield on Savings: Rock-bottom interest rates are a stealth tax on savers.
May 12: Fast Track to Financial Success: This story unveils the secret tools, traits, motivations and behaviors that build wealth.
May 5: What Goes Around Comes Around for Banks: A rash of new reports show Americans continuing to lose faith in their workplaces and institutions.
April 29: Priced Out of the Top Public Schools: Middle-class parents who want the best education for their kids face difficult choices.
April 22: Find Extra Money Now in Your Tax Return: A stroll through the numbers can boost your financial outlook in the year ahead.
April 15: Six Money Tips for Recent College Graduates: Behavioral economics offers unconventional but practical financial advice for people entering the workforce.
April 8: Two Tips for Boosting Your Happiness: A look at two new research studies — one suggests that’s what matters most when it comes to money and happiness is not absolute income, but where we rank compared to peers; a second finds a connection between happiness and meaningful conversation.
April 1 Improving Your Relationship with Money: Financial well-being demands we embrace the ordinary and the simple rather than looking for short-cuts, because simple perseverance in following certain personal finance ”standards” can yield extraordinary results, not to mention financial peace of mind.
March 25: How to Make Smarter Choices: A review of the book “The Art of Choosing” by Columbia University psychologist Sheena Iyengar.
March 18: How to Be Your Own Financial Regulator: Although financial reform is coming, a little common sense goes a long way in avoiding the major pitfalls of consumer finance. Here are some rules of the road.
March 11: Two Job Markets, Worlds Apart: In the fourth quarter of 2009, there was no recession for the highest-income households: The unemployment rate for people in the top 10 percent of income — those earning more than $150,000 a year — was just 3 percent, while the unemployment rate for the bottom 10 percent of earners — workers who bring home less than $12,500 annually — was 31 percent. This story explains why.
March 4: You Can Save the Smart Way: How to turn an extra $35.86 a month into $24,000 in savings.
February 25: The Myth of the $18,000 Wedding: Consumers’ willingness to pay can be easily manipulated because we often don’t have a good handle on our preferences or a rational baseline for the decisions.
February 18: Would You Do This to Double Your Pay? People are often willing to trade time for money, even though a variety of studies have found people who are “time affluent” are happier than those who are materially affluent.
February 11: Loving Your Day Job and Your Life: A review of ”The Artist in the Office: How to Creatively Survive and Thrive Seven Days a Week” by Summer Pierre. The book offers inspiration and practical tips not only to frustrated artists, but alienated workers clinging to jobs they hate, reluctant to move on because of the tough economy.
February 4: Big Brother Wants You to Be Happy: A review of the book “Happiness Around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires” by Carol Graham, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
January 28: Finding Free and Low-Cost Tax Help: Exactly what the headline says.
January 21: Could the Credit Card Act Ruin You Financially: Before extending credit, companies must now consider an applicant’s “ability to pay” — or their income and debt load. That means they’ll be verifying what consumers say they earn on credit card applications.It’s a consequence of the law that few advocates have talked about: What will happen to the millions of financially strapped consumers and small business owners who’ve become dependent on credit cards in times of crisis?
January 14: Easy Tips to Avoid Being Ripped Off: A review of the new book “Stop Getting Ripped Off: Why Consumers Get Screwed and How You Can Always Get a Fair Deal” by Bob Sullivan, who writes the Red Tape Chronicles for MSNBC.
January 7: Miserable at Work? You’re Not Alone: Job satisfaction in America hit a record low in 2009, according to the Conference Board — with only 45 percent of workers reporting contentment with their jobs. Here’s why.
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