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To help you make the most of your 2009 taxes, here are some tax tips to help you organize, prepare, and take advantage of the available tax deductions and tax credits for 2009 tax year. Instead of trying to compile my own list, I reached out to a few personal finance bloggers to share their [...]

The holiday season is in full swing and everyone is looking for ideas to help them stay out of post-holiday financial nightmare. One way to help you spend more sensibly is by using an American Express Charge Card*. Unlike using a credit card, you must repay your full balance at the end of each month [...]

PocketSmith is an online personal finance management tool with some unique features. It features a calendar that allows you to add events, multiple calendars, and forecasts how much cash you will have over the next year. Like other personal finance or budgeting sites, you upload transactions to the site from various accounts and are able [...]

Lending Club is a social lending network where investors can earn competitive returns by funding loans requested by borrowing members. Currently, investors are enjoying average Net Annual Returns of 9.6%, and experiencing less than 3.1% charge-off and default rate.
For the month of September, Lending Club is hosting a special giveaway to celebrate the approaching milestone [...]

Last week, Christian Personal Finance turned 2 years old — congratulation Bob! While we are on the subject of blog anniversary, Moolanomy Personal Finance is turning 2 this July 15th. To celebrate this auspicious occasion, I am giving away 1 (one) iPod Shuffle to one lucky winner on July 15th. All you have to do [...]

Have you started your tax returns yet? If not, please check out my TaxCut Premium Federal + E-file giveaway – the first of four winners will be announced this Tuesday. As for me, my returns are almost done, I am just waiting to open a SEP IRA account with TradeKing and fund my wife’s Roth [...]

Good news! H&R Block is sponsoring a giveaway for readers of Moolanomy (that’s you). The prizes include 4 copies of the TaxCut Premium Federal + E-file software ($34.95 retail value).
TaxCut Premium Federal + E-file software gives you the advanced tools and guidance for maximizing deductions and tax savings associated with home ownership, education, investments, real [...]

Thank you everyone for participating in the Favorite Financial Websites giveaway. If you haven’t add your favorite websites to the list, please feel free to leave a comment with your favorite sites here. Otherwise, I’d like to announce the two winners of the giveway. The prize is $25 each.
First winner, from comment #31… Jim, who [...]

There are a lot of financial websites out there.  Unfortunately, there are some really good ones that you may not have heard of before.  Over the past few months, I have been trying to collect these financial sites into my Personal Finance Directory (please check it out, explore, rate, and review these sites).  But I [...]

Net Worth Review
The S&P 500 gained +0.8% in December and went from 896.24 to 903.25. But for a full year, the S&P 500 dropped -38.5% from 1468.36 to 903.25 — ouch!  According to NetworthIQ, my net worth rose +3.44% and my net investable assets increased +6.54%.

Highlights

Home value actually went up slightly in December, but for [...]