Adjusting to your first “real” job can be a daunting task. First of all, you have to get into the routine of getting up early every day and being ON TIME every day. Then, you have the task of relating to your co-workers and boss. Then, you have the human resources meeting […]

At Money Crashers, there are two main goals that I am trying to achieve:

Educate and inform you about managing money, investing, buying insurance, and spending wisely.
Help you change your personal financial behavior.

If you are an informed consumer and you change the behavioral patterns that got you into a mess with money, […]

Check out this article about preparing for retirement assuming you’ll live to be 100 years old.
This is not a far-fetched idea. There’s no doubt that a positive correlation between technological advances and increasing life spans exists. The article describes how 20 to 40 year olds should plan on living a long life of retirement […]

You can spend a good deal of money surrounding yourself with professionals to help you do your taxes, plan an estate, buy and sell mutual funds, and buy insurance. However, I think you only need to hire a professional for certain times in certain situations. Sometimes, financial professionals get lazy with their clients, […]

Whether you liked it or not, the media force fed us every minute of the details of Anna Nicole Smith’s death, custody battle, and estate planning nightmare. One of the biggest mistakes that Smith made when writing her will in 2001 was she put a clause that no future children would be a part […]

The answer to that is probably, YES! Generally, if you are worth over $10,000 in assets and cash then you need a will. A will takes all of the guesswork out of what you really want your assets to do when you part this life. And let’s be honest, do you really […]