Port Discovery, the Children's Museum In Baltimore Launches 'A.G. Edwards Build Your Own Nest Egg' Program.
Financial Literacy Program Will Teach Kids How to Earn, Budget and Save Money BALTIMORE, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Tomorrow, as part of A.G. Edwards' national "Nest Egg Knowledge for Kids" initiative, Port Discovery, the Children's Museum in Baltimore is launching a new financial literacy program to teach...

Boston Children's Museum Launches "A.G. Edwards' Money Matters" Program.
School Field Trip Will Teach Kids How to Earn, Budget and Save Money BOSTON, Nov. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, as part of A.G. Edwards' national "Nest Egg Knowledge for Kids" initiative, the Boston Children's Museum is launching a new financial literacy school field-trip program to teach kindergarten...

Spending like there's no tomorrow: it's time for Uncle Sam to call a credit counselor.
APRIL IS THE CRUELEST MONTH, T.S. ELIOT FAMOUSLY wrote. I'm guessing Eliot penned that line just after Turbo-taxing his 1921 returns over to the IRS. As we endure what for most of us is a forlorn exercise in fiscal cartography this month, there is another budget we should also...

Gluttons for punishment.
While I read the March Reader Survey ("The state of sin") by Bryan Cones with great interest, it is no surprise that one of the most ignored, denied, and commonplace sins--gluttony--should only garner a 7 percent response rate by your readers. The sin of gluttony should be...

Let freedom ring.
"Never get a credit card," my father used to tell me when I was growing up. He'd say it in a crotchety old voice--not that he was crotchety and old then, not that he is even now--but the voice communicated that credit cards, while perhaps useful in...

Monkey see, monkey do.
To the Editor: As a student in Columbia University's MFA program, I wanted to point out an amusingly ironic oversight in John Kelsey's rant in "On the Ground" [December 2004]. Kelsey portrays the New York art world as dominated by the whims of young collectors. He singles...

Review essay: reform and social change.
Unquiet Lives: Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England, 1660-1800. By Joanne Bailey (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii plus 248pp., $65.95). Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain 1780-1850. By Arthur Burns and Joanna Innes (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii plus...

Taking charge: attention credit card companies: when we want you to charge us hidden fees, we'll let you know.
In 1949, a finance executive named Frank McNamara invited two friends to dinner at Major's Cabin Grill in New York City. At the end of the meal, McNamara found that he had forgotten his wallet, and he was forced to call his wife for money. McNamara vowed never to...

Who will succeed Alan Greenspan? Successor may face big problems.
Byline: GLENN SOMERVILLE JACKSON HOLE, Wyo, Aug. 28 (Reuters) - Former US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, lavish in his praise for Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, said Friday his successor should be market savvy because large problems may lie ahead. In a luncheon speech at...

Erase problems while you still are able to. (Debt).
With the economy slowing, now is the time to lower excessive household debt. Families currently in decent financial shape may find themselves in a serious state in the event that jobs disappear or other hardships occur. Some economists have said this high personal debt could be the economy's "Achilles'...