According to U.S. News & World Report, Americans seem to have put themselves on a budget. Inspired by the recession, today’s savers are developing lifelong habits that will affect how they spend money long after the recession ends. Expensive vacations, lavish dinners, and even boutique coffees are falling by the wayside as people shovel more money into their basic savings accounts. Unfortunately, a global recession such as we are presently encountering is a very hard way to learn these lessons. A much better way is to seek out a comprehensive financial education that can help you manage your money more effectively, and prepare yourself for future contingencies.

One of the last vestiges of the old analog days is in the process of disappearing. Photographic film maker Eastman Kodak Co. has discontinued the 74 year run of its premier color film, Kodachrome. It seems that photographers have completely abandoned the film format, in favor of new and more exciting digital technology. If you have not embraced such technological advancements, perhaps it is time to. Even aging baby boomers are turning to the Internet to launch new careers and create lucrative streams of income.

Stanley and Mary Ann Huddle simply decided not to participate in the recession.

Kaneohe, HI—Stanley and Mary Ann Huddle are Baby Boomers who got slammed by the recession. Huddle is a former airline pilot who spent the last 17 years in the cockpit of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, flying for Japan Air Lines. Mary Ann managed the family front as a stay at home mom who dabbled with network marketing. And then the global economic tsunami hit. “The effect on us was very real, and very personal,” Huddle said. “We lost most of our life savings in an investment scam almost two years ago and then I lost my job this year.”