If you’re someone who’s tired of living from one paycheck to the next, want to build a solid safety net, curb impulse spending and increase your earning power, then Adam Baker at Man Vs. Debt is someone you should be listening to. He and his wife paid off about $18K in consumer debt, sold all their belongings, and were able to travel the world for over a year!

The Heroines of Personal Finance and Entrepreneurship series continues at IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com with Anya Kamenetz, a young author and columnist for the New York Times, Washington Post, Salon, Slate, and Village Voice. Her first book is Generation Debt: How Our Future Was Sold Out for Student Loans, Bad Jobs, No Benefits, and Tax Cuts for Rich Geezers — And How to [...]

Ben (from Startup Spark) is hosting a group writing project at his Instigator Blog, and for each participating blog $5 will be donated to charity. The prompt is “What did you learn in 2006?” So here is my contribution to the project! Ben’s call for participation in his group writing project offers me a unique opportunity to look back at [...]

Jim Wang recently served up a great article for college students over at his blog Blueprint For Financial Prosperity: “Student Loan Deferment vs. Forbearance.” If you’ve got student loans, and you’re near graduation or already paying them back, you should take a look and educate yourself. I recently had a run-in with these terms when the Federal Direct Loan people [...]