Archive for February, 2008
At the end of last month, I discussed how the basic net worth formula reveals several money management insights. As part of that article, I started a little game where I ask my readers and other bloggers to join in and list idea to increase income, reduce expenses, save money, pay of debt, etc. [...]
This article was part of the Money Blog Network February 2008 Group Writing Project.
When it comes to budgeting, there are two main camps on this matter — either you swear by it, or you believe budgeting doesn’t work. For example, Nickel coined the term reverse budgeting and pretty much said he saves as [...]
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. [...]
This is a guest post by Tisha Kulak of CreditorWeb.
Students going off to college are in for a lot of new experiences. With a little common sense and by practicing good habits, stolen credit cards and identity theft will not be one of them. College students have many options when it comes to credit cards. [...]
The other day, David at My Two Dollars lamented how he’s falling further into debt due to his medical bills. The gauntlet of procedures he’s going through just reminded me of my own situation. In fact, we just received my wife’s first hospital bill — $1,510 for her epidural! Thank God our insurance [...]
It’s official, last week was my stupid tax week. I am not talking about the tax rebate, or tax refund. Basically, I did a couple of stupid things that cost me money.
Car Inspection
I look at the red safety inspection sticker every time I get into the car. For some reason, I never [...]
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 [...]
It has been a while since I wrote about my peer-to-peer lending investments. DebtKid recently interviewed me, and you can see our interview on Lending Club. One of the questions the stuck with me was: “Do you think P2P investments should fit into an investor’s portfolio?”
Peer to-Peer Lending Is Not Ready for Prime Time
In [...]
With enormous markets emerging across the world and the dollar continuing its decline, the suggestion that investors should increase their international exposure in order to have a balanced portfolio is worth looking at more closely. After all, investing in international equities helps diversify a portfolio by broadening currency risk and exposing the portfolio to new [...]
