by Miranda | Finance, Personal Finance
Since Christmas has passed, my husband and I have been on something of a spending diet. It hasn’t been a conscious decision; we’ve just been a little too busy to worry about buying things, and, besides, it seems a lot like overkill to go out and spend...
by Miranda | Finance, Personal Finance
Growing up, we didn’t talk much about money. My parents talked about the importance of saving and of the importance of tithing, but we didn’t really talk about my parents’ financial situation, or talk much about what other people made. Talking about...
by Tom Drake | Credit and Debt, Finance
Your credit score is an increasingly important piece of your financial picture. Your credit score can influence not only your loan approval and interest rate, but also your insurance premiums, as well as what kind of deposit you have to make with a landlord or a cell...
by Miranda | Finance, Insurance
One of the issues that is coming up this tax season is confusion over the Advance Premium Tax Credit (APTC), which is part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA — also known as Obamacare). When you’re buying health insurance on one of the exchanges, you might be...
by Miranda | Finance, Personal Finance
We like to say that “money can’t buy happiness.” To a certain extent, that’s true. In many cases, simply having more money isn’t going to make you happy. Much has been made of recent research that indicates that there is a point at which...
by Miranda | Finance, Personal Finance
Like many people, there are lots of things I could be doing differently with my finances. And, with a new year under way, it’s tempting to list out all of those areas in which we feel we are falling short and attempt to fix them all at once. This approach, while it...
