Personal Finance Tracking: Lost Wallet? Top Six Things To Do Now.

Losing your wallet or purse can be like losing a Wii Sports tennis match to your 6 year-old nephew: it’s demoralizing and humiliating, and had you just been a bit more careful, it probably wouldn’t have happened. Here are four things to do before you lose your wallet, and six things to do after you lose it.

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Debt Management Tools: The Cost of a Credit Card’s Convenience?

Every once in awhile, Mint gets email with questions on personal finance; and every once in awhile, we put on our thinking cap and (try to) write a thoughtful response to these emails. Here’s one such email from one of our readers, and the corresponding opinions from this very minty blog.

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Tracking Finances: Riding the Dot-Com Bubble

Tracking finances is something that we care about here at Mint. Learn more about tracking finances in our blog article index.

In the late 90’s when the world was ablaze with dotcom millionaires and it looked as though the stock market could make me wealthy too, I bought a lot of technology stocks — including some [...]

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Personal Finance Tools: Happy Graduation! Now What Do You Do About Your Finances?

It’s finally over. All those late night of hard work, sweating away, hitting the controller as you advance in the marathon Smash Brother tournament. You’re all done with college, you got your B.S. or B.A. and you’re now ready to begin a life of being a different type of drone. Just kidding. More importantly, what should you do financially after college?

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