A weekly roundup of some of the more interesting and helpful personal finance articles I’ve read recently. Seven skills that will help anyone achieve their financial goals (The Simple Dollar). Daily habits that can make all the difference. Watch out for phishing scams in the final weeks of the tax season (Washington Post). In your […]
A weekly roundup of some of the more interesting and helpful personal finance articles I’ve read recently. This is how to stay in the market when stocks spin out (MarketWatch). Successful investing has much to do with how you respond to falling markets. How to take market turbulence in stride (Sound Mind Investing). How to […]
A weekly roundup of some of the more interesting and helpful personal finance articles I’ve read recently. Why you might go bankrupt if your next-door neighbor wins the lottery (Wall Street Journal). Really interesting research into the whole keeping-up-with-the-Joneses phenomenon. Life insurance made easy (Sketch Guy – a NY Times blog). A simple two-step process […]
A weekly roundup of some of the more interesting and helpful personal finance articles I’ve read recently. One simple financial move you can make in a month (Forbes). A little bit of this can make a big difference. When not to save for retirement (Reuters). I agree – there are two steps you should take […]
My hand-picked list of some of the more interesting and helpful personal finance articles from the past week. Keep calm and step forward (ETF.com). No one likes it when the market falls, but making panicky, emotional investment decisions usually causes more harm than good. 8 most dangerous places to use your debit card (CBS Money […]
A weekly roundup of some of the more interesting, entertaining, or helpful personal finance articles I’ve read recently. 10 bear market truths (A Wealth of Common Sense). Words of wisdom after a brutal week in the market. What investors should and shouldn’t do in this market (MarketWatch). It’s times like these when you find out […]
On a nice summer evening after dinner recently, our two-year-old was in our backyard working a blue Hula-Hoop with a level of skill far beyond her years. Her face was the very definition of joy. But then it all took a very sudden turn for the worse. Her five-year-old brother had gone into the garage […]
Have you ever started a sentence with the words, “I love …” and then completed it with a description of something instead of someone? For example, do you love your car? A favorite pair of shoes? Ben & Jerry’s Chunky Monkey ice cream? We’ve probably all told someone that we “love” something or other. However, […]
MSNBC recently compared the benefits of sweating the small financial stuff versus the big stuff. Their conclusion? Both ways work. Penny pinching – clipping coupons, buying store brands, etc. – helped one couple profiled in the story knock out $50,000 of non-mortgage debt and build a healthy emergency fund in less than three years. It’s […]
There was an interesting and surprising piece on Forbes.com about women’s greatest financial fears. Reportedly (the article didn’t actually say how it came up with its list), women’s top ten financial fears include finding themselves suddenly destitute (“the bag lady syndrome” – the article noted that even Katie Couric suffers from this fear), being unable […]
