Posts Tagged ‘mortgage’

My wife pregnancy is coming along well, except for occasional all-over-the-body-ache. While I was giving her a massage last night, I was able to go over another financial lesson with her. The second lesson was focused mainly on financial goals.

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Types of Financial Goals
There are many types of financial goals:

Pay off [...]

Last week the Federal Reserve cut interest rate by half a point. This reduction in its target short-term rate is the first cut in that benchmark since 2003. Let’s see what bloggers are saying about this:
Money and Such, How to Play the Fed Rate Cut (editor’s pick)
This is a very informative post that [...]

I mentioned previously that I made many financial mistakes in the past. One of the more serious ones was refinancing my mortgage from 30 years to 15 years in 2003 (about 4 years after I purchased my home). On the surface, I did a brilliant job of saving nearly $97,000 in interest expenses [...]

Thanks to the positive stock market close on the 31st, August was not as bad as anticipated. Last month, I started using NetworthIQ to track my net worth. After I entered all my information, the result was +0.19% net worth. My liquid assets went up by +2.71% from 21.74% to 22.33% of [...]

Yesterday, I read “Good Debt?? There is No Such Thing” on Gather Little By Little. First, let me say that I consider Glblguy a friend and a very respectable blogger; but when I read the title I thought what the heck is he talking about? This prompted me to read the rest [...]