People often say one thing, but do another. And when it comes to money that goes double – as a recent survey reveals.
A Princeton Survey Research Associates study of 1,000 adults across the country showed that while Americans feel good about saving money, they still aren’t really doing it.
Twenty-one percent of employed Americans report that they aren’t saving any of their income at all, while a quarter of respondents said they only save 10% of their paychecks. Still, for the first...
A recent survey revealed a startling truth about the finances of many Americans: over half of them don’t have enough money saved to cover their expenses in the event of an emergency.
The survey, which asked 1,000 adults about their savings habits and financial situations, showed that 22% of them had at least enough money put away to keep them comfortable for six months. Fifteen percent have funds to cover three to five months without income, and 21% have emergency savings that will last...
In recent years, credit card companies have seen the small business sector as one of the fastest growing credit users and the most profitable as well.
It was American Express who first released a credit card specifically made for small businesses, about twenty years ago. In the past decade, other credit card companies began to move in on the small business sector as a fast growing source of new credit accounts, moving away from the already saturated consumers sector.
Because of the...