The Webster-Ashburton Treaty established the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains. John J. Greenough received a patent for the sewing machine paving the way for a boom in New York’s furnishings and apparel industry...

For the fourth week consecutively, the mortgages rates eased a little more. According to the recent Primary Mortgage Market Survey by Freddie Mac, the rates for both short-term loans and long term loans have fallen by a small margin in the last week...

Many people believe that eventually, and sometime in the not so distant future, no one will carry cash in their pockets, and everything will be purchased using plastic. Others think that will happen around the same time that people start driving around in space cars, or when we have domesticated robot maids to clean our homes and make our meals...

1. Blowing your school loan money! Instead of using your financial aid for books, tuition, room & board, many students will choose to finance their extravagant lifestyle of partying, clothes, gadgets, and eating out...

Exactly when is the right time to consolidate anyway? You hear a lot of debt consolidation pitches. You read about the benefits of debt consolidation. Does this mean you should consolidate because experts say it’s good for your finances? This article will try to shed light on when debt consolidation is called for...

To many people the word budget implies something constraining and negative. But a budget is really nothing more than a spending plan. By planning how and when you will spend your money, you are really just living within a budget...

Bad weather may be heading our way. Many very smart voices have raised their volume over the number of alarming red flags pointing to a worldwide environmental catastrophe coming in a few years or decades hence...

Copyright 2006 Stellar Force The True Price Of Money Everything costs something, even money. The price of money is the interest paid. In the case of your “idle” funds (savings account, money market, CDs, savings bonds, etc...

Inflation and economic trends require families to have two incomes just to stay even with their expenses. It may be that, in the future, even two incomes will not be sufficient. It is a good idea to be prepared for bad economic times rather than to simply hope for the best and suffer if the best does not come...

Introduction: To lead a happy life is the main aim for everyone in this world. For this they will be having a planned monthly budget and they will be maintained it nearly perfectly. But in this fast moving world it’s a bit tough task maintaining the entire family budget easily without any ups and downs...