Word: checkbooks
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...page from that darn "Life's Little Instruction Book" begins to pop back to life, sweetly reminding me: "Now, if everybody thought that way, where would you be? Probably out of a lot of financial aid, young lady." And if my kindergarten teacher-esque conscience doesn't force my checkbook open, I'm sure that peer pressure will...
...typical bill for tuition, fees, room, board, books and incidentals is $10,069 at public schools--23% of the average American family's household income. Only a very few of us can open our checkbook and zip off that amount. And yet somehow it gets done, as thousands of families scrimp a little here, borrow a little there and take advantage of a host of scholarships, grants and tax credits made possible by organizations ranging from the local Lions Club to the Federal Government in Washington...
...Chauncey Street resident reported that while shopping in Harvard Square, an unknown person cut the strap to her purse and stole it. The victim said the purse contained credit cards, over $500 in cash, her license, other indentification cards and a checkbook...
...starters, you can send the money over the Internet encoded in an E-mail instead of sending a check. This saves you the trouble of balancing the checkbook at the end of the month, and it gives you the option of transferring the money from wherever you want: mutual fund, money market, even an old-fashioned checking account. Your daughter can store the money any way she wants--on her laptop, on a debit card, even (in the not too distant future) on a chip implanted under her skin. And, perhaps best of all, you can program the money...
...with the notion (credit academia), but more than anyone else he helped pioneer a new kind of risk-aware investing that offered a first glimpse of a world of high-wire, high-tech finance. His legacy has touched every American with a home loan, a credit card or a checkbook. And it has not only made consolidators like McColl and Weill possible--it has also made them essential and inevitable...