When you get mail from your bank, it seems like it always either a statement, an offer for a new service or a privacy notice. I always wonder why my bank feels the need to change their privacy policies so often. Despite how boring the average privacy policy is, though, I do make the effort [...]

There’s no question that, financially speaking, things are a little rough right now. The prices of food, gas and other necessities are going up, raises aren’t exactly forthcoming and credit is getting hard to come by. Just about every financial guru seems to be telling us to tighten our belts.
But what if you’ve already tightened [...]

Identity thieves are hiding in sheep’s clothing. Learn how fraudsters are mimicking your favorite websites to glean your information.

When I was in college, I watched a friend of mine buy a copy of a movie I knew for a fact he had just a copy of last week. When I mentioned the fact, his response just about floored me. He had bought another copy, he told me, but that one had a big [...]

It seems like every day there’s another preapproved credit card waiting in my mail box. And some of those offers look pretty tempting — after all, who wouldn’t want a 0 percent interest rate if only for a few months. It doesn’t stop at the mail box, either — every store at the mall has [...]

Whether you’re saving up to buy your first house or working on eliminating some credit card debt, just about every financial guru will tell you to be frugal — to cut down on unnecessary expenditures. It’s such widespread advice because it works — brown bagged lunches, fewer Starbucks lattes and wearing clothing that doesn’t require [...]