Women Are Less Confident With Personal Finances
Neither men nor women feel particularly confident about investment decisions, but women are less confident, according to study after study, including two new ones. Not everyone sees this as a bad thing, and yet it's arguably a mechanism of inequality.
Don't Know Much About 401K's
Living in a capitalist economy means that one's life path is largely dictated by getting money, spending money, and saving money. Most people are plenty good at spending money, and some people are pretty great at getting money, but few excel at saving money, mostly because saving money is boring, not fun, and not…
Money Has A Gender
Turns out, women are better with it — stereotype to the contrary.
Personal Finance: You And Me And Money Makes Three
Slate is doing an interesting survey on how couples manage their money. But when I went to fill out my form, I got self-conscious.
Which Of The Five Money Profiles Are You?
After surveying women on their attitudes towards their money, demographer Maddy Dychtwald came up with five financial personality types. Here are details to help you figure out where you fall.
Keira Knightley Didn't Fuck That Guy From Pride & Prejudice For A Reason
We heart economists! (In fact, we were wondering why we never ended up having one night stands with them! More on that below!) Anyway, namely we love how they are always sprucing up the Dismal science by using their awesome powers of calculation for utterly pointless tasks like figuring out the net worth of, oh my…
One Girl's Closet: Another's Portfolio!
As the most self-hating people we know, we couldn't agree more with Suze Orman: the woman who doesn't take care of her money doesn't truly love herself. But just like we're hoping maybe 2K7 will be the year we learn for once to get rid of exess body mass, we're hoping at least to gain in wallet mass. And sort of like…

