College Candy has a useful post on 5 Ways to Boost Your Credit Score. In particular, here's one simple tip that often gets overlooked

So, yesterday during our all-day @gradspotguru Q&A extravaganza on Twitter, we heard a familiar story that, unfortunately, doesn't get any easier to deal with in a crappy economy. To paraphrase

OK, not an actual "recession beer." More like a nice dark porter. For those interested in a little DIY experiment, The Simple Dollar blog has a very helpful walkthrough and cost breakdown of brewing your own beer.

If you've been laidoff or are 3-plus months into a job-hunt that has no end in sight, you may have experienced that moment of epiphany where you think, "Wow, I have so much free time on my hands." Trolling through Craiglist and catching up on the Chelsea Lately may take the lion's share of the morning, but then what?

In the United States, there's often an assumption that everything costs how much it says it does and there's no room for deal-making. But with the economic downturn issuing a firm shake-up to the capitalist system we've come to know, bartering is back en vogue.

We've all used WebMD to self-diagnose ourselves (and then subsequently convince ourselves we had Parkinson's). We've all taken echinacea tablets and believed that maybe we'd never get sick again (at least until the next time we got sick)

Every content provider and its mother is going nuclear on money (and job) related stories these days. Here's a quick rundown of some pieces we found interesting.

$200pp meal at Per Se in the cards? I think not. Ten-course tasting menu at Daniel. Nope. McDonald's happy meal? Now we're talking. But every meal doesn't have to default to Micky-D's quite yet

I had a blackberry. I loved it. It loved me back. And then it decided to break. The pearl (otherwise known as a trackball to the uninitiated) fell out. Well guess what?

Mark your calendars: Wednesday, April 15. The day on which you contribute to the bailout! Exciting stuff...