Finally, I’ve joined the thousands ( millions? ) of folks using Twitter to communicate online.  I’m just a Twitter novice so far, but I’m doing my best to learn quickly.  To help get things started, I’m asking all my readers to follow Llama Money on Twitter.  You’ll get to see all my tweets, ask me [...]

Welcome to the January 28, 2009 edition of the carnival of net worth – #12 in the series.  This time there were a TON of submissions, many of which had nothing at all to do with net worth!  Please, when you’re submitting articles, be sure there’s some relation to net worth in there.  I’m flexible, [...]

That’s not entirely correct – you can still get 10 free stock trades per month if you have over $25,000 in assets with Zecco.  That’s a tenfold increase of their prior $2,500 requirement – the main reason I signed up with them.  This change will go into effect March 1st, 2009.  If you currently have [...]

Well, I finally got my act together and finished my taxes.  It was a little less painful than last year.. I was a tad more organized.  Still pretty messy…. but an improvement in any case.  The net result?  I had to pay a cool $384.  On the flip side, I did have $5500 set aside [...]

Today I bring you a special guest post by a gentleman named Wade Slome – a multi-millionaire by the age of 32. SPECIAL NOTE Everyone who comments on this post will be entered in a random drawing for a free copy of How I Managed $20,000,000,000 by Age 32. Stop by one or more scheduled [...]

What a way to start off the year, right?  My net worth dropped by 6%, or $2756 in January.  The entire reason for the drop is a $3300 legal fee (which I won’t go into detail about, except to say I’m glad that it’s taken care of, and it’s worth every penny).  This fee aside, [...]

The details are a little fuzzy at this point, as they often are with government involvement in financial measures.  But the Senate is apparently going to try to push through a bill that will encourage lenders to offer fixed rate 30 year mortgages at a stunning 4%.  “If” the bill passes, and “if” lenders actually [...]