Category: Miscellaneous

Free eBooks — Money Matters for All Ages
Not long ago, I wrote “Money Matters for All Ages - The Chaotic Thirties” as part of a collaborative project with 15 other personal finance bloggers. Our cumulative efforts turned into a financial guidebook that spans an entire lifetime. From the innocent little infant to the older [...]

David at My Two Dollars posted my interview this morning. Please have a look.
Thank you David!

I was tagged by DebtKid to participate in the 123 Book Meme.
The rules:

Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
Open the book to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the next three sentences.
Tag five people.

The book closest to me is The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need by Larry Swedroe. [...]

I have been listening to this crap about steroids in baseball, and how Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee are dueling it out in a Congressional committee hearing. Frankly, I want to puke. I understand that steroids use by these sport stars set bad examples for our younger generations, and I agree that the [...]

I have a secret desire to be a professional financial planner one day (well, now it’s not so secret anymore). Of course, this would take me in a completely direction from my current career. Because of this desire, I jumped at the chance to interview Ciaran McKeever of Chance Favors who is a [...]

Net Worth Review
January was a bad month for the stock market despite two rate cuts by the Fed. The S&P 500 index dropped -6.12% from 1468.36 to 1378.55. According to NetworthIQ, my net worth went down -1.66% and net investable assets went down -7.35%, or from 23.93% to 22.18% of $1 million goal [...]

There are a lot going on at Moolanomy’s ideas factory. Unfortunately, I can’t write them down fast enough, but I want to share everything now — talking about patience! Anyway, here is a list of topics that I will be talking about over the next few days, may be weeks. I just [...]

This is part one of a three parts series where I will be reviewing The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need by Larry Swedroe — our resident Ask The Expert columnist. Part One of this book was entitled: “The Loser’s Game: The Game Wall Street Wants and Needs You to [...]

Before I begin, I’d like to say that this is a special edition of the net worth review, because following my review, I will be sharing what my friends are all saying about their net worth or the subject of net worth.
Net Worth Review
December was another weak month for the stock market, and the S&P [...]

Happy New Year! and welcome to the New Year Edition of the Festival of Frugality: “A blog carnival focused on the frugal life and getting that little extra edge out of the products you buy and the services you use.” Considering the holidays, there were quite a bit of submissions over the past two weeks. [...]