Cost of Living: Economy Can Wait; Stimulate Your Savings

Courtesy NYT > Your Money  Fri, 06/27/2008 - 21:07

As millions are receiving stimulus checks in the mail, it pays to ask oneself whether it ought to be spent the way Congress intended it, or whether it should be saved.

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