As the class of 2010 steps into the real world, another year of students will have to start paying their student loans soon. Most student loans allow anywhere from 3-6 months before interest starts to accrue so students have time to find a job before starting the repayment process. Once the interest kicks in it can add [...]
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What FF Readers Think About a High School Money Course
Last week I wrote a long overdue post on a topic that means a lot to me, money education in high school. One of the biggest challenges with creating courses about money is differing opinions about what is important for students to learn, and what is best left to be learned on your own. Because [...]
My Curriculum for Money Education in High School
Ever since I started learning about money in the summer of 2008, I’ve been fascinated with the lack of money education in our lives. No one teaches us anything about money, yet, every single person in this world deals with money every day. America’s a nation that repeatedly struggles when it comes to money, but [...]
Vittana: Help a Student in a Developing Nation Go to College
Peer-to-peer lending has soared in popularity lately. You can make loans to entrepreneurs around the world with Kiva or you can help someone with their debt through Lending Club. A new p2p company that I was recently introduced to is Vittana. Vittana wants to get people around the world to college. In America and other developed countries, [...]
Interview with an American Working as a Research Assistant at a German University
Last Thursday, I interviewed a British filmmaker who had traveled to Kyoto on a whim, and ended up meeting his future wife and starting a new life. Continuing with the theme of unconventional ways of moving abroad, today I bring you an interview with Brandon, an American who now lives in Germany where he’s currently [...]
The Entrepreneur Test: How Well Do You Score?
This is a guest post from Joel who is a Certified Financial Planner™, the owner of 4 different companies, a self professed Internet nerd, and currently working on many different web projects that range from a site for comparing health insurance to a site that helps people backup websites online. Do you think that you [...]
How to Avoid My 3 Novice Investment Mistakes
I started learning about my money during the summer of 2008 and I made some rookie investing mistakes during the early stages. Luckily, these mistakes didn’t cost me thousands of dollars like some money mistakes, but they’re mistakes worth learning from so that you can avoid them in your money life. During that summer and [...]
The Extensive Guide to Starting a Textbook Side Hustle in College
In college, my girlfriend and I inherited a textbook business from a friend. We bought and sold textbooks on campus for 55 weeks and made $4,909. We not only made more than every person working an on-campus job, but we learned about the ins and outs of running a part-time business. There are a million [...]
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