When something you use again and again is on sale, take advantage. This strategy doesn't apply to perishable items, and you don't want to buy so much more than you need just to get a deal, but if you know you're going to use a product eventually, it pays to take advantage of the cheaper price.

Knowing where you stand in your quest to accumulate enough money for retirement is an incredibly important part of the planning process.

Anything past 90 days constitutes 'severe,' but all late payments stay on your report for seven years if reported.

If you haven't gotten a raise in the past couple years for a job well done, it might be time to ask for one.

When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties.

Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you.

Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don't take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don't.

The first book I bought with my own money as a teenager was Martin Amis's 'Money.' You know that thing when you read a book and you think, 'I'm going to have to read every word ever written by this man.'