3Nov

A major part of personal finance is the area of investments. It is so important for individuals to learn and apply investing because it can make you money in a very effective way.

Real estate inves…

8Apr

Every 6 months or so there are a handful of media articles about the scourge of credit card companies marketing their cards to defenseless college students who are willing to give up their futures for…

Where College is Free

20Nov

With the never-ending talk about the rising costs of college tuition, you'd think it was impossible to get a college education without paying, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong. BusinessWeek ha…

The Blogging Scholarship

5Sep

I wish they'd had this when I was in college—The Blogging Scholarship. (Actually I would've been satisfied if they'd had the Internet when I was in college.)

Some lucky college stu…

29May

I always read about the increasing costs of college, but, as it's been a while since I've been collegiate myself, I decided to do a little investigation on the actual numbers. So, below I offe…

25Apr

We got a statement yesterday from our son's 529 plan that shows we have now saved enough money to pay for one full year of college at a state school. This assumes that if the dollars we have today…

19Mar

Davidson College, a small (1700 students) but prestigious liberal arts college in North Carolina, announced today that it will not offer student loans as part of its standard education funding package…