Personal Financial Advice from a former Certified Financial Planner
There is an article floating around on Marketwatch titled Parents You’re Paying for College Wrong. This kind of article is one of the reasons I write Finance Gourmet. After being a Financial Planner in Denver for several years (and, yes, I was a Certified Financial Planner), I saw a lot …
Payday loans are a bad deal for borrowers. The negatives that are inherent to this type of loan are quickly exacerbated by people making poor choices, or just as often people with no choices. Payday loans are named for the way this lending method got its start. Originally, the way …
As a former financial planner I know that not all finance is just about the math. The truth is that earning money, spending money, and saving money is a highly emotional thing. While it is fine to suggest that people eliminate emotion when dealing with money, that’s a little bit …
Days like yesterday and today are why I write the Finance Gourmet. For those of you who didn’t see it, the Federal Reserve, or Fed cut interest rates to between 0% and 0.25%. All day today, the media has been droning on about what it means for consumers, homeowners, and …
