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You can get a free credit report once a year, but not at FreeCreditReport.com. Despite its catchy jingles, the site will sign you up for a not-free monthly credit monitoring service, the New York...

Claiming personal savings rates are the lowest they've been since the Great Depression, Yahoo Finance sets out to identify five signs that you're living beyond your means. For example: More Than 28%...

What better way to wile away your workday than by calculating exactly how long you'll have to work at all? Tutorial site wikiHow puts together a step-by-step on how to calculate exactly how much...

The Simple Dollar finance blog crunches the numbers to help anyone who's procrastinating putting aside a little money each paycheck because they're trying to perfect their investment strategies. For...

Windows only: Freeware application CostOfSmoking helps you understand just how much money you've lost to smoking over the lifetime of your habit. The end goal of your improved understanding of the...

If you've already gotten your free, once-a-year credit report but want to see fresher numbers, CreditKarma, a free credit-tracking site, can give you month-to-month estimates without affecting your...

Good money management is a mental exercise in self-regulation and focusing on the long-term goal, even when you're sure you just can't go on another day without buying that Kindle or MacBook. Even...

In addition to real-time NASDAQ quotes, Google Finance now provides NYSE real-time quotes—just type the stock name into the search box and go to a page that will stream price updates as time...

Whether you've got an investment portfolio the size of Texas or you're just trying to keep a balanced checkbook, nothing's more useful than a well made personal finance application. The hard part is...

April 15th may seem like a long trip around the calendar, but there's nothing worse than getting there and realizing you haven't kept a close enough eye on your finances. Nobody likes the extra...

Techie Leonard Lin publishes his investment asset allocation in a Google Spreadsheet which employs the super-useful GoogleFinance formula for live-updating stock prices in-sheet. [via]

Personal finance blogger Ramit Sethi calls out what he sees as the expensive self-delusion of subscriptions at his I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog. Sethi says we over-estimate how much we really get...

Personal finance blogger J.D. Roth is on the road towards making his money system completely paperless. Direct deposit, automatic savings transfers, Quicken, and auto bill pay gets most paper out of...

If you started investing $448 a month at 30 years old, Yahoo Finance says that a reasonable 8% return would put your savings over the million dollar mark in 35 years. The problem, of course, is...

New York Times personal finance columnist Ron Lieber offers a seven-word guide to choosing how you invest your money. Lieber writes: The author Michael Pollan offered an elegant seven-word mantra in...