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Up until about 10 years ago, there was one type of IRA, the traditional IRA which was deducted from your taxable income, grows tax deferred, and upon withdrawal, is taxed at whatever rate you find yourself. Its cousin, the Roth IRA is the mirror image, the money you put in is after tax money, but [...]

I recently came across the How to Drive Free and Retire Rich slideshow on Dave Ramsey site via a fellow blogger Pat. The slideshow basically said the normal way thinking about car ownership is all wrong and there is a better way to go about this. Dave Ramsey proposes that you save your money first, [...]

In the credit card world, scam operators are taking money from innocent customers without adding value, misrepresenting claims and simply performing shoddy service. Fortunately, customers have an avenue to complain and the FTC has also taken pretty tough actions. Below are some examples of the actions that the FTC has taken against some shady companies. [...]

Just saw the latest promotion from Chase credit card called Chase Picks Up The Tab. Apparently Chase has been running this promotion since March and will run through June 2009 (and this is not the first time either). The promotion goes something like this. Just use your Chase debit card as you normally would and [...]

April is Financial Literacy Month and I’ve joined force with 30 other bloggers to write for a nonprofit organization in a series called Thirty Steps To Financial Wellness. Specifically, I’ll be writing an article for Step #15 entitled Securing your financial future. Please be sure to bookmark this web site and follow our progress through [...]

Over the weekend, I came across a rather interesting series called The History of Credit and Debt at Myvesta.org. In this carnival, I’ll be sharing short excerpts from the series.
This week carnival is not big, but it’s packed with good articles. In this carnival, I selected 9 articles as the editor’s picks and the first [...]

The M-Network Vacation Guide
This week, members of the M-Network did a series on vacationing. Frugal tips, ideas, experiences, personal accounts…everything. You can see and read all of our articles in the M-Network Vacation Guide on our network blog.
Giveaways
There were several giveaways announced this week, please take a look:

Blog Anniversary and Free Gas Giveaway at Single [...]

Net Worth Review
March was another down month, but the second half certainly showed some promise for the stock market. For the month of March, the S&P 500 index dropped -0.60% from 1330.63 to 1322.70. According to NetworthIQ, my net worth actually went up +0.94% but net investable assets went down -1.01%, or from 22.32% to [...]

This is the 4th issue of the Ask The Expert column by Larry Swedroe. You can see Larry’s full biography and important disclaimer below. If you are interested in having your question answered by Larry, please send me an email via the contact page.
Now, let’s get to the questions and answers (please note that the [...]

This article is part of the M-Network group writing project about cars and what they meant to us. This series will run from November 12th through the 16th, and we welcome you to share your stories with us.

At first, I was going to launch into this long history about how I loved the Transformers cartoon, [...]