money

If you’re young and talented in music, film, television or sports and right out of college or high school and you hit the big time with a mega million dollar contract what would you do? How would you handle the fame, pressure and getting all of that cash figuratively overnight?

What would you do with $10,000? Would you save it? Spend it on something fun like a fancy vacation? Maybe you would spend it on something practical, like a home renovation. Start planning because we're giving away cash all this month!

You are the jury. Watch and decide as a 9 month old puppy is asked, "Did you eat my money?" The pup, Luna, probably should never play poker.

Today we celebrate the penny. Or, if not celebrate the coin, we highlight its existence as it is, ‘National One Cent Day’. What is one cent good for? Certainly not for buying a penny candy anymore as most counter top candies are now a dime to a quarter. Pretty much the only use I can see for a penny is to make exact change.

Raising a family can be costly and budgeting for things can be tough. You can save by buying meat at the grocery store in the morning when the butcher puts the tear-off coupons on the packages.

Well, this was a first for me today. I was heading to my live broadcast at Camelot Homes in Auburn this morning and decided to hop on the turnpike in Augusta instead of taking Rt. 202. I was running just a bit behind, so I didn't want to take a chance of being late. My problem? Once I was on the turnpike I realized I had no cash.

My friend, Tina Charest, lost $500 last weekend when a woman, who identified herself as being from Central Maine Power, called and told her she had to pay $500 or her power was going to be shut off. When you're operating a bar that sees it's biggest nights on weekends, you're going to be hard pressed to call the person's bluff, especially when they're as convincing as this woman apparently was...

Well, another week, another empty bank account. Wait, didn't we just get paid?

You know what’s funny, my wife and I have been married for going on 14 years and we still don’t have a joint checking account. Why? No real reason except for inertia and the fact getting a new account is a hassle and you need a mandatory deposit to open a new account.

You might have seen the image all over Facebook of the 52 Week Saving Challenge. You save the amount of money as it is the week number of the year. So, the first week you save a dollar. The second week you save two dollars. Every week you add the next amount up to the end of the year. The 52nd week you add 52 dollars. By the end of the year you have $1378. Or do it backwards, gets you to the same

Those two winning tickets were sold in Atlanta, and San Jose, California! So I guess I am not the BIG winner, but there is still money to be won. Check those tickets!  The winning numbers were.....

All this month, we're giving away $10,000 right here on our website. Plus we're giving listeners two chances every day to win $1,000 (just listen all day for your chance to call). That's because we're obsessed with cash. It's 'Moose Money Mania!'

One-hundred-dollar bills are about to get quite the colorful face-lift.

Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream fame was at the Common Ground Fair in Unity this weekend with his Amend-O-Matic machine which stamps messages on currency that take a hard swipe money in politics!

Get ready to throw away all those ratty old Benjamins that are just laying around your house—the newly designed $100 bill will be going into circulation in October.

It is easy to talk about how state government spends our tax dollars, but now we can get a look at some numbers. In his State of the State speech Gov. LePage talked about “Open Maine Checkbook”. The goal is help government be more transparent.