How Getting Your Finances in Order is Like Getting in Shape
January! Time to once again set lofty goals. While glancing through a fitness book (Fit and Well: Core Concepts and Labs in Physical Fitness and Wellness) I noticed a subtitle — Reaching Wellness through lifestyle management. The section “introduces the general process of behavior change and highlights the decisions and challenges you’ll face at each [...]
Pocketsmith Review and Giveaway
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 [...]
Best Online Bank For Savings And Checking?
Which online bank is best? This is not an easy question to answer since we all have different criteria when it comes to banking. A good place to start is how much interest the bank is paying you. However, there are many more factors to consider beyond interest rate.
7 Things To Consider Before You Open [...]
Moolanomy Answers and Liz Pulliam Weston Weekly Highlights
I have been thinking about how to increase interactivity of this site and make it easier for Moolanomy’s readers to help each other. The result is a new feature called Moolanomy Answers. You’ll notice the question box on the sidebar of every page along with the 3 most recent question. Please check it out — [...]
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Mortgage Refinancing And Real Estate Investing
In this Ask the M-Network article, PJ shared information about his home and his desire to buy a house that just came on the market. Should he refinance is current home, or sell it to buy the new one? Should he buy the new home and rent out the old one? Here’s the question from [...]
Weekly Highlights: February 7, 2009
This has been a good week in term of new visitors to Moolanomy. Our 40+ Alternative Income Ideas was featured at Momma’s Blog, Prime Time Money, and MSN Smart Spending! Thank you everyone for your support and endorsement.
Also, I am a habitual blog tweaker and you may have noticed that I changed the layout of [...]
Weekly Highlights: January 23, 2009
Last week, Moolanomy’s Extra Income Guide was featured as part of the 25 most helpful articles written by PF bloggers, and it was also part of the Free Money Finance March Madness, Round 1, Posts 1-4 competition. Thank you Bob and FMF. It’s an honor to be included in the list and be part of [...]
Ask The Expert with Larry Swedroe, December 2008 Issue
This is the 11th 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 [...]
Quicken Online Review, It’s Free!
Until recently, Intuit’s Quicken Online costs $2.99 per month after a 60-day free trial period. Beginning October 13th, 2008 there is no longer a fee to use the Quicken Online program — yes, it’s free! Since I like free stuff, I signed up yesterday to get some first hand experience. In short, I liked it. [...]
| High Interest Savings Accounts | 1.51% |
| High Yield CDs (1-year) | 1.60% |
| High Yield Checking Accounts | 1.46% |
| Best Credit Card | TrueEarnings® |
| 0% APR Balance Transfer | 12 mo |
| Lowest Interest Rate | 9.75% |
| Best Cash Back Reward | 5% |