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Passive Income Defined, Plus: 4 Ways to Get Yours
There's a new buzzword these days, and that's "passive income." While the term may have exploded in popularity, the concept is not so new. Investopedia describes passive income as "Earnings an individual derives from a...
How to Set and Reach Financial Goals
Without financial goals, your money is just money. It's easy to fritter it away when you don't have a plan for it or even easier not to see the point of having money when there's no goal behind it. The key to...
What You Can Do with a Personal Loan from a Credit Union
Life has a way of throwing you curve balls. Just when you think things are going well, you're hit with a medical emergency and a hefty ER bill. Or you might have years of credit card debt that seems impossible to dig...
Lease or Buy a Car: What's the Difference?
One of the big questions you need to answer when it's time to get a new set of wheels is: lease or buy? There are pros and cons to each option, depending on your goals and what you want from your car, but it's...
Should You Get a Store Credit Card?
"Would you like to save 15 percent today?" It doesn't seem like a question many people would turn down. But, if the difference between saving 15 percent and not is opening a store credit card, you might want...
How and Why to Start Using E-bills with Your Credit Union
These days, banking has mostly gone online and mobile. In 2013, more than half of adults in the U.S. did some amount of banking online, according to a survey conducted by Pew Research Center. By 2014, more than half of...