It sounds like John McCain and his wife could use billQ. :)
Here are two pieces of economic insight to chew on. The first is an article about John McCain's health care policy. I know it's politically charged, but it's full of valuable economic discussion, so let's get post-partisan for a second. Especially interesting is the comparison to the Credit Card ...
Everyone hates junk mail, but aside from being annoying, it can also be dangerous (dun, dun, dun...). That was very Dateline NBC, but seriously, pre-screened credit offers and unsolicited mail can leave you open to identity theft and can also tempt you to open too many lines of credit — bot...
We just launched a small improvement to the reply-to-reminders feature that turns out to be very helpful. Now, when you get your reminder email, and you reply stating that your bill is paid, you can also include the amount the bill was paid for.
The formatting is very simple, you just reply, ...
For anyone who had upgraded to version 1.0 of Adobe AIR and noticed that the billQ AIR App wasn't compatible, the problem is now fixed (sorry it took so long). You can download the newest version of the billQ AIR App from the Widgets Page, or from your Tools page within billQ, and be back in acti...
I recently had a conversation with a friend about savings plans, and a related issue of contributing to savings vs. paying down long-term debt came up. This is a common gray area when it comes to looking at the most effective way to budget and manage your money, and probably one of the best artic...
The age old debate over 'Renting vs. Buying' contains many myths, but it's important to look past these misconceptions and towards the facts. A recent article on the eFinanceDirectory tackles some of these points in a very direct and easy to understand manner. It's worth a read.
David Cay Johnston, a New York Times investigative reporter and author of Perfectly Legal, and Free Lunch, was recently interviewed by Tom Ashbrook on On Point. In the interview he talks about how the American economy has been hijacked by corporate special interests as the middle-class and small-...
We have been somewhat quiet on this blog lately, but to make up for it, we just launched an update with a couple of improvements. Most notably, we have increased the Schedule and Group limits on the Plus plan to 40 and 25, respectively. You can see the updated plan details on the pricing page.
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Philip Brewer over at the Wise Bread blog has written an interesting post called A better way to create a budget. In the post he looks at a budgeting technique called "zero-based budgeting," which is actually something Jimmy Carter used during his term in office. Basically, the concept is that yo...
