5 Smart Money Moves for College Students  October 5, 2010 RSS
Feed Print   • Comment  Last week, I wrote about why college
students need a Roth IRA and one of the biggest reasons was that
they have one of the most valuable commodities on the
planet—time. There are many smart money moves college students
can make, regardless of where they are in their careers, and
many of these moves are important because of the time factor.
The earlier you can do many of these things, the more of an
impact it can have on your financial life. Just as it's valuable
to open a Roth IRA in your 20s, many of these tips will make you
smile when you hit thirty, forty, or fifty years of age.  [In
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of the most financially valuable things you can do for yourself
and it's best to start as early as possible. As a student, it
will be difficult for you to an unsecured credit card because
you'll have little income and