By Jake Holmes, Financial Literacy Outreach Coordinator at the Maine Credit Union League. Reposted with permission from the Financial Literacy Blog. According to the New York Times, almost half of Americans say the most difficult topic to discuss with others is personal finance and they would ... Read More
Budgeting
Keeping A Budget on Track During the Holidays
It’s hard to believe the holiday season has arrived. We’re sure you and your students are being bombarded with ads for toys, clothes, and other gifts. Gift-giving pressure can be overwhelming, especially when trying to stick to a budget and pay for school. Here are some money management tips to ... Read More
Financial Stairmaster
By Steve Kautz, former Maine mathematics teacher and personal finance expert. Mastering the Steps to Success with those Finances Last week while rereading my posts, I realized that I often say things like "start your emergency fund," or "contribute to a retirement plan." I also realized you ... Read More
Thinking About Expenses on an Annual Basis
By Steve Kautz, former Maine mathematics teacher and personal finance expert. All that talk last week about fitness made me think about my gym membership. When I re-activated my monthly membership this past weekend, it got me thinking about another aspect of budgeting. That is, the importance of ... Read More
Don’t You Just Love the Smell of Fresh Ground Beans?
By Steve Kautz, former Maine mathematics teacher and personal finance expert. I love coffee. Portland is a great place to be a coffee lover. We enjoy an incredible mix of strong franchises with cheap, weak coffee, local businesses with strong, expensive coffee, and everything in between. There ... Read More
Being “Loyal” to Yourself
By Steve Kautz, former Maine mathematics teacher and personal finance expert. I mentioned in my last entry the idea of choosing how we live (from a financial point of view) in our economic system. In the American version of capitalism, personal finance isn't all about managing your money so that ... Read More
Budgeting: Part II of Infinity
By Steve Kautz, former Maine mathematics teacher and personal finance expert. That's right, the topic of budgeting can never be thoroughly covered. Just do a quick Google search and you'll find a million pages of advice containing another million or so formulas for success. For now, ... Read More
“It’s Clearly a Budget. It’s Got a Lot of Numbers in it.” – George W. Bush
By Steve Kautz, a former Maine mathematics teacher and personal finance expert. Budgeting. Oh, This is Going to Be Fun Sorry, that was a bit of a lie. I suspect most people don't think budgets are fun or interesting. I do, but "Kautz, you are such a geek" has been overheard in my classroom ... Read More
Dos and Don’ts of Personal Finance: A Discussion Everyone Should Have
By Steve Kautz, former Maine mathematics teacher and personal finance expert. The Scoop on the Blog The subtitle of this blog is "Conversations in Personal Finance," and that is exactly how I see it. Conversations, storytelling, talking, thinking, scratching, digging, crawling ─ whatever we ... Read More
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