Filed under: Savings Experiment , Holidays View Poll Related Stories Save on Women’s Intimates Get the Best Bling for Your Buck When Buying a Diamond Ring Valentine’s Day is a time when you can show your loved one how much you care, but you don’t have to dig deep into your wallet to do it. Here are some great… Savings Experiment: Valentine’s Day originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-01-31T10:00:00Z

Filed under: People , Special Report Over the past few weeks, Sheldon Adelson made headlines for his outsized gifts to Newt Gingrich, which have quickly turned him into the biggest individual spender in the 2012 election cycle. But while the casino mogul’s huge donations have elevated Gingrich’s chances in the Republican primaries, they’ve also raised quite a few eyebrows.

Filed under: Technology , Earnings , Netflix , Apple , Amazon.com Amazon.com’s ( AMZN ) disappointing quarterly results Tuesday night may seem eerily familiar to Netflix ( NFLX ) shareholders. We have an online giant seeing its margins contract as it replaces physical delivery with digital delivery. Revenue’s growing

Filed under: Family Money , Personal Finance Miranda Martinez has a pretty good handle on her finances these days. The college professor and her husband bought a house in Brooklyn, N.Y., with a healthy cash down payment. Martinez takes regular trips to Italy to visit her in-laws without wracking up fat credit card balances.

Filed under: Taxes Congress is cutting the budget of the Internal Revenue Service. Granted, the IRS is not the most beloved agency in our government, and complying with the rules it enforces isn’t exactly a favorite national pastime. But before you cheer the move, consider this: While most parts of the government operate by consuming money, the sole mission of the IRS is to generate the funds that keep the country running.