Month: August 2008

  • How to Choose Insurance Deductibles

    How much should my insurance deductibles be? You’ve all heard the question asked before, and maybe you’ve even asked it yourselves.  It’s a rather straightforward question, but there is no one right answer.  Everyone has a different financial situation and as such should look at their individual situations to decide how much to set deductibles…

  • I Want To Hear From You!

    Personal finance, made personal. That’s the slogan that I’ve chosen for Debit versus Credit.  I didn’t choose it because it sounds cool.  I didn’t choose it because a friend told me to.  I chose it because that is exactly what I want this blog to accomplish.  There are hundreds of personal finance blogs out there. …

  • Don’t Do Business With This Credit Union

    I know a girl who recently had her car repossessed by her financial institution.  She got behind on the payments and because of extenuating circumstances mostly beyond her control she was never able to communicate with her credit union about the delinquent loan in order to keep it from being repossessed.  They took her truck…

  • The University Kid

    I recently discovered a great website that focuses on Entrepreneurship, and more specifically Young Entrepreneurship.  I think it’s a great fit for Debit versus Credit since here I also focus on helping young people learn about finance and business.  The University Kid is run by Jason Pereira who just so happens to be a sixteen…

  • Weekend Reading: Aug 9th

    It’s been an interesting week for me. I finally finished with the summer semester at ASU so now I’m on break for about two weeks before classes start up again. I pulled off a couple of A’s so I’m extremely happy about that. Anyway enough about me. Here are a few posts which I ran…

  • Sizzling Stocks To Buy Right Now

    Here’s an interesting video.  By posting this I’m not recommending you take the advice construed in the video, I just wanted to point out that there are still great buys in even today’s market.  As a disclaimer I own shares in BAC, which is listed in the video. I told you it was interesting… right? …

  • My Stock Portfolio

    After 9 months of almost absolute silence from me regarding what sort of investments I have made, I think it’s about time that I present to you my stock portfolio.  I own shares in 9 different companies.  Some of my investments may not have been very wise at the time, but I’m under the impression…