Personal Financial Advice from a former Certified Financial Planner
AT&T is making big moves, are they good for AT&T, or bad for AT&T. As everyone knows, I’m a dividend guy. I believe in buying the stocks of good companies and then treating them like bonds, collecting interest payments while ignoring price movements. Usually, when you buy a solid, US …
I just realized that in the last 10 years I never wrote a basic budgeting article for Finance Gourmet. There are a few reasons for that. One, when you get going as a former financial advisor writing a real-world personal finance advice website, you want to jump into the juicy …
SquareTrade has been bought by Allstate. Allstate is an insurance company that does auto, home, and life insurance. They now do item protection plans like SquareTrade used to do. I first wrote about SquareTrade back in 2009. At the time, I was overjoyed at the concept of warranties from Square …
I’ve had Google’s new cell phone service, called Project Fi, for just over a year now, and I’ve had a chance to get a good feel for it, as well as what I used to pay, and what various people pay now. So, is Google’s Project Fi a good deal, …
When is $48 million not $48 million? When it is a FCC fine. T-Mobile was fined $48 million today by the FCC for misleading customers about its unlimited data plans. As it turns out, T-Mobile’s unlimited data plan was actually a 17 GB per month plan. After that the company …
As someone dissatisfied with my current cell phone carrier, I was curious about T-Mobile’s switch for free offer. I’ve heard the radio commercials and seen the signs, but I know there is always more to any deal than the bold text. I wondered, is the T-Mobile switch for free deal …
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article about how cellphones are eating the family budget. It seems as though the idea and everything but the words were lifted from an earlier article in the Boston Globe. Whatever the source, this is something that I saw coming years ago as …
