Filed under: College, Kids and Money, School
How does a college reject applicants? The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) counts the ways: Harvard is compassionate, Boston University discouraging. Mount Allision University offers a personal touch, and Duke is wonderfully kind: “I know you will find an institution at which you will be happy; I know, too, that the school you choose will benefit from your presence.”
Filed under: Debt, Entrepreneurship, Tax, Technology, Recession
Here’s what the real reincarnation of JFK, according to SNL, has done for our wallets since entering office:
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Filed under: Banks, Bargains, Borrowing, Debt, Saving, Tax, Health, Wealth, Travel, Recession
The Daily Show recently sent a correspondent to Stockholm to lampoon America’s fear of socialism. Last week, Comedy Central aired the hilarious result in a two-part series skewering innocuous Swedish stereotypes (hot blondes, ABBA) as a way of skewering our more potent stereotypes of socialist programs.
Filed under: Banks, Bargains, Borrowing, Debt, Saving, Tax, Health, Wealth, Travel, Recession
The Daily Show recently sent a correspondent to Stockholm to lampoon America’s fear of socialism. Last week, Comedy Central aired the hilarious result in a two-part series skewering innocuous Swedish stereotypes (hot blondes, ABBA) as a way of skewering our more potent stereotypes of socialist programs.
Filed under: Budgets, Debt, Technology
Let’s face it: keeping on top of your finances is never fun. Mint.com wants to change all that. Since September 2007, users of the online personal-finance service could track how they’re spending money. Starting today, you can also measure how financially fit you are.
Filed under: Banks, Entrepreneurship, Extracurriculars, Relationships
As Walletpop writer Zac Bissonnette noted yesterday, Great Barrington, Massachusetts has developed a new, regional form of currency. The BerkShares program follows in the footsteps of several other regional currencies, but takes the idea of local economic planning to a new, impressive level.
Filed under: Bargains, Borrowing, Budgets, College, Career, Recession
The New York Times reports that many laid-off, right-sized, downsized and fired workers are looking to technical colleges and other training programs to develop new skills that will, they hope, lead to long-term job security.
Filed under: College, Wealth, Charity
Over the past seven weeks, a string of colleges have received anonymous donations ranging from $1 million to at least $10 million.
Filed under: Credit, Debt, Technology, Transportation
As if being behind on a car loan payment isn’t bad enough, auto lenders now have the technology to remotely shut off the offending car’s engine when payments are late.
Filed under: College
The USA Today reports that “Though 2009-2010 tuition rates have not been set for most public universities, increases of at least 5% to 6% – and in many cases higher – are expected as university administrators struggle to maintain quality education amid state budget cuts.”
Meanwhile the private colleges who aren’t vulnerable to state budget cuts are managing to keep their cost increases in line: “The University of Pennsylvania reports an increase of 3.8%, lowest in 41 years. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2.9%), Princeton University (2.9%), Hamilton College (3%) and University of Denver (4.9%) report the lowest increases in recent history.”