Nothing like a good idiom to shed light on a problem. Being penny wise and pound foolish is really saying that focusing on saving a small amount of money may prevent you from earning a large amount of money. “Seeing the forest for the trees” is another idiom with similar meaning. This refers to being [...]
The year 2018 was a robust year of consumer lending. Online personal loans and retail consumer finance both saw upticks in lending volume as the consumer was in better financial health and lenders had plenty of capital at their disposal. Lenders were eager to work with businesses to get their capital out to consumers. Did [...]
Many would have you believe that Americans should not be in debt. Well, with consumer debt totaling $3.778 trillion in the 3rd quarter of 2018, it looks like a lot of people didn’t get the memo! Debt, including revolving lines of credit and installment or personal loans, is not inherently bad. In fact, it’s been [...]
If you haven’t heard of the term software-as-a-service, or SAAS, I’m certain you have used a SAAS product either at work or home. Most businesses now employ SAAS applications for all types of business functions – from customer relationship management (heard of Salesforce.com?), to accounting (Quickbooks comes to mind), to graphic design (think Adobe). Even [...]