During a great discussion with @PaulRushing, I got to thinking, is it ok to send out sponsored tweets? While this is far from a Twitter blog, I think this has a very real relationship to personal finance. After all, if you do accept money to tweet a certain message, that’s money that you could put [...]
This is a follow-up to my post entitled: Are you willing to change? from last week. So you’ve realized that your financial situation just isn’t working. You have a problem, and you’ve admitted it – good. But it’s not good enough. You have to change, and do it quickly. The financial choices you’ve made so [...]
Welcome to the May 6, 2009 edition of the carnival of net worth. David presents APR vs. APY posted at Personal Finance Ology, saying, "Get informed on the difference between apr and apy, and learn how to shop around for the best financial products." Relax presents The art of taking risk posted at The Wise [...]
Well, I’m about 15 days late with March’s Net Worth Report. Surely I could come up with a hundred excuses about how busy I was, and how much I had going on. But you wouldn’t really care about that now would you? March was a good month in some regards, but I ended up with [...]
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 [...]
