If you’re self employed, or even partially so, tomorrow’s an important day.  Quarterly estimated tax payments are due tomorrow, April 15th. So if you’re a slacker like me, you better get cracking and file your taxes!  I just made a cool $2000 payment via EFTPS, after it finally let me log in.  It seems like [...]

There comes a time in everyone’s life when they wake up from the financial nightmare that they’re in, and realize something needs to give.  Whether it’s the realization that credit cards aren’t free money, or ever-growing car loans, or a mortgage reset catastrophe – most of us have been there. Congratulations, that’s the first step [...]

Anyone who’s spent any time in the car business, or probably sales in general, knows exactly what debt motivation is.  Management is always encouraging salespeople to spend every dollar in their bank accounts, buy new cars, and even buy houses.  With all those big payments due every month and no savings to fall back on, [...]

Welcome to the March 25, 2009 edition of the carnival of net worth. This is #15 in the series, and one of the biggest ( maybe the biggest ) yet.  Take a few minutes and read some of these great articles: The Shark Investor presents Strategies For Raising Funds: Borrow Your Way To Wealth posted [...]

In case you hadn’t heard, the president asked Rick Wagoner – the CEO of GM – to resign, and he complied.  The President of the United States of America basically forced the CEO of a publicly traded company to resign his post.  What in the world could you and I possibly learn from this?  Two [...]

Everyone has that someone in their family or circle of close friends.  You know, the guy ( or gal ) who is always looking to borrow some cash.  I can see you nodding your head.  Whether it’s your brother, sister-in-law, great uncle, best friend from grade school or whatever, there’s always someone who needs some [...]

Waiting until the last minute to do your taxes?  Well, wait no more.  Llama Money is giving you the chance to win a free copy of TaxCut Premium Federal Software.  Thanks to H&R Block for providing the software.  How do I enter to win? Very, very simple.  Just follow @llamamoney on Twitter, and tweet this [...]

Welcome to the February 18, 2009 edition of the carnival of net worth.  This is #14 in a long line of ( somewhat ) weekly postings all about net worth.  Enough yammering, check out some of these great articles: BankMan presents Why You Need a High Yield Savings Account posted at High Yield Savings Accounts, [...]

When it comes to investing in the stock market, the most sound peice of advice there has ever been is this gem: “Only invest in the stock market that which you can afford to lose.”  It’s been said a hundred different ways – but the message is very clear, and always the same.  If you [...]

If you’re planning to do any stock trading with your Zecco account, remember that the new fee structure goes into effect today.  Buying or selling stock will cost you $4.50 each time.  Generally speaking, you don’t want your commission fees to be larger than 1-2% of your trade.  In the case of Zecco’s fees, a [...]