From March, the price of an annual railcard will go up by £5 to £35, while a three-year card will increase by £10 to £80. So it's a good time to consider getting one before the price hikes come in - and there's a deal available that means you get it for even le...
Around 1950 a bank clerk earned about five pounds a week, so perhaps spending a fifth of your weekly wages on 240 sticky penny buns would not have made particularly good sense.. I received these recollections (thanks Ted from Scotland, Feb 2008) from the late 1920s to early 1940s, which...
Simply stated, money has to be earned before anyone spends it. Keynesian economists, by contrast, think it is very important to distinguish between the long run and short run. In the long run, they generally would agree with the previous paragraph. But they would argue that “stimulus” ...
Davis earned scholarships to New York University (B.A., 1953) and Harvard Law School (1956), and in 1960 he joined the legal department of Columbia Records (a CBS subsidiary). Soon after becoming president of CBS Records in 1967, he attended the Monterey (California) Pop Festival, where ...
Of all the different ways to make money blogging that I’m engaged in, this is one of the lowest returns in terms of total dollars earned (especially for my amount of traffic). The trade off however, is that it takes me zero effort on a daily basis to generate revenue with this chann...
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC): This credit, designed for low- to moderate-income earners, has historically attracted scrutiny due to improper payments. While higher-income earners are more likely to be audited, EITC claimants face a substantially higher audit rate due to issues with improper ...
With the little money he earned from his hard work he immediately donated it back into relief funds for all the places he’d visited. His coworkers all loved him, ask anyone and they all say he was the most positive and bright man they’d ever met. This is why it came as no ...
Christmas is the busiest time of year for us...All our butchery staff work every Sunday during December, and we only have one day off in the first week of December. Basically, from 1 December to Christmas Day, you'll only have one day off. ...
One of the hard parts of potentially being a military spouse is that you might not have what's called earned income. You might not earn a lot of money on your own, which is typically how you will be able to contribute to a Roth IRA. But there's this pre...
Some couples, like Paul, choose to split contributions equally, regardless of how much they earn, while others decide to do it proportional to the amount earned (so if one person earns 30% more, they would pay 30% more into the account). ...