What You Need to Know About Credit Card Debt

With the current U.S. recession dragging on, unemployment at its highest rate in over a quarter century, and home values that have plummeted in recent years, consumers from coast to coast are finding themselves struggling with credit card debt. Many would say that they are finding it difficult to simply stay above the financial water line.
We could [...]

Getting Honest About Your Money

There is power in financial planning—you make a budget, you’ve got a map to anywhere you want to go. But, for all the plan making and budget creating that I encourage, the real power is in the honesty you bring to the table.
The truth is sneaky sometimes. We think we’re speaking it. Playing our cards. [...]

SingleMindedWomen.com Poll: Would You Date a Guy with Manboobs?

Seth Rogen. Jason Segel. Jonah Hill. These guys are being touted as Hollywood’s new leading men . . .
Aw, come on already! Don’t we women have any say in this?
Seriously, what movie producer dares to presume we’ll fawn and flutter over dudes with manboobs, as opposed to six-pack abs?
Take our poll here, and let’s [...]

Duchess Digest: Look! It’s a Sign!

Several months ago I came across a Kabbalah Center with a large banner hung over the front entrance which read, “Look – It’s a Sign!”
After chuckling for several minutes about their clever marketing campaign I started thinking, “If only it were that obvious in real life!” And so while humming the “Signs, signs everywhere is [...]

Duchess Digest: Funemployment? Really?

I recently read an article in the LA Times about young, single professionals having the time of their lives with the recent unemployment pandemic. In the June 4, 2009 L.A. Times, columnist Kimi Yoshino reported on many unemployed professionals who are deeming their layoff (or for some buyout) as the beginning of their “funemployment.”
The stats [...]

The Grass May Be Greener a Thousand Miles Away

Recessions bring change. At times, that can be a good thing.
For single women, change can come in many forms. For the financial and banking sectors it has come in the form of new regulations on the way business is done. For the American auto industry it has revolutionized the possible future of manufacturing and perhaps [...]

Identity Theft: How to Protect Yourself

In the course of a busy day, you may write a check at the grocery store, charge tickets to a ball game, rent a car, mail your tax returns, change service providers for your cell phone, or apply for a credit card. Chances are you don’t give these everyday transactions a second thought.
But an identity [...]

Madoff Investers Offer Lessons We Can Learn From

Chances are you know the story by now. Bernie Madoff (pronounced Made-off) the high-flying financier turned diabolical criminal was sent to jail last week and that is probably where he will remain for the rest of his life.
His crimes? Well many in the eyes of the law, but just one crime that will live on [...]

Don’t Know Much About Economy: Teens Have Low Financial IQs

In 1958 Sam Cooke wrote a hit song, Wonderful World, which bemoaned how high school students knew about love and lust, but little about history, biology, science and French. Now you can add “economics” to that long list of subjects that so many of us know so little about.
As recently reported in an article entitled, [...]

On International Women’s Day

Special thanks to Paul Harrison, managing partner of Carve Consulting, a London-based firm specializing in helping companies use online tools to reach employees and customers, for passing along a blog entry about International Women’s Day (IWD),  an annual event which occurs on March 8.
According to the International Women’s Day 2009 website, the day is for [...]

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