Holiday Shoppers Started Earlier This Year. It used to be that Black Friday started the day after Thanksgiving.  Just in case you didn’t know, Black Friday got its name from retailers.  Investopedia states that it was the day that retailers had enough sales to put them “in the black”, an accounting expression referring to the […]

Are You Facing Your Own Fiscal Cliff? You can’t turn on the News without seeing the talking heads discussing “Fiscal Cliff” this or “Fiscal Cliff” that.  What is the Fiscal Cliff anyway?  Will it really affect you and me?  Well, let’s see.  I’ll try to put all of this in a nut shell to make […]

by  Lisa Bertagnoli Today’s young singles are spending more and saving less than their married counterparts. Are they digging themselves a hole with no bottom or can a shift in the notion of how they spend, not why they spend, keep them in good financial health for the future? A paper published in the U.S. […]