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Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve had an affinity for numbers. My father loves telling this story about how when I was seven, I corrected a guy’s math off the top of my head—of course, that correction worked against my father and cost him some amount of money. I love playing with numbers in spreadsheet programs and I even enjoy writing computer programs to manipulate numbers—after all, that’s ..

Last month, Ticketmaster settled a $400 million class action lawsuit over its exorbitant fees. This month, they’re paying it out—in the form of discount codes and vouchers. Chances are, you have a free show or two sitting in your inbox. The suit affects about 50 million people who bought tickets on Ticketmaster between October 21, 1999 and February 27, 2013 and paid the company’s ridiculous over..

Whether it’s highway tolls or subway passes, your work commute can add up over time. To cut costs, your employer may offer commuter tax benefits. Over at LearnVest, Certified Financial Planner™ Matt Shapiro says that even if your company doesn’t reimburse your transportation expenses, they might offer this common money-saving perk: “If you pay for parking at work or you take public transportatio..

Index funds are an easy way to get started with investing. We’re fans of an easy, “set and forget” portfolio that you can set up once and benefit from over time, and index funds are the backbone of this kind of investing. When it comes to picking one out, Consumer Reports suggests a few traits to consider.We’ve told you all about how to get started with index funds, including how to pick one, bu..

While money may not be the key to happiness, it sure can help. A recent study suggests the trick is to be true to yourself. The study, led by Sandra C. Matz at the University of Cambridge, and published in the journal Psychological Science, used data from more than 76,000 transactions, and found that purchases of material goods and services only made people happy when they were in line with peop..

On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver bought $15 million in outstanding medical debt just to prove how easy it is to start a debt buying company. It was debt that regular people owed, presumably from surgeries, hospital stays, medical procedures and so on. Instead of buying the debt to turn a profit, Oliver forgave it. All of it. The segment outlined the many flaws of the debt and credit industry, b..

I recently heard what is possibly the worst piece of car buying advice I’ve ever heard: my father-in-law, who is in the market for a car, was told that rather than get a car loan, he should take a home equity loan instead. Here’s why that is a horrible idea. For those of you not familiar with a home equity loan, sometimes called a second mortgage, it basically works like this: if the market valu..

Unless you were born into riches, you’ve probably dealt with money troubles. Financial problems can be a struggle, and “financial literacy” is the go-to solution to building good money habits. Create a budget, learn some basic rules, and poof! Our money woes are cured. That’s not all it takes to improve your finances, though. Not by a long shot. Financial literacy is, in a nutshell, understandin..