Archive for Personal Finance
Sometimes in the world of personal finance, the hardest thing is knowing who to trust. While the Internet is full of information about all manner of financial topics, the good unbiased truth from someone who isn’t just trying to sell you what they have to offer, can be hard to find amongst all the other websites that look good, but maybe don’t offer the best information. One of the best... Read more→
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CommentsSometimes, it can be tough to know who to trust. Even when there is honesty, it doesn’t necessarily follow that there is competency. Many financial advice books make my blood boil with their over simplification and the way they make some ideas sound like they solution to many problems when in fact, they are only useful in limited circumstances. So, it is nice when you can find a trusted... Read more→
The much ballyhooed law passed a few years ago that was supposed to address all the privacy concerns out there regarding banks, brokerages, utilities, mortgage companies, and other companies that you do business with requires that all companies send you a privacy notice at least once per year. In that privacy notice you mush be given the right to opt out of certain kinds of information sharing... Read more→
The phones are blowing up all over as news of the Federal Reserve Board’s decision to cut interest rates to between 0% and 0.25% spreads. Here is what it means to you. First off, this is a strange deal. The Fed always sets a hard number for its interest rate target. So, this range thing is a little bit strange. But, it is basically either 0% or 0.25% depending upon how you... Read more→
Unbelievable. I grabbed my trusty notebook this morning and wrote a post for the Finance Gourmet from one of the many topics I have listed in there. Basically, I wrote about how actually saving some money is more important than learning all the tricks to investing money, particularly when you don’t have much money to invest in the first place. Then, this afternoon I was (finally) going... Read more→
