After hemming and hawing, putting it off, and just generally being lazy, I decided enough was enough. I got several quotes for a custom WordPress design for Llama Money. The least expensive quote was for over $1,400! That’s all well and good for a site that’s bringing in thousands of dollars per month – but [...]

Ever wanted to spend a cool million at one spot with a single coin?  Well, me neither.  But if you have had this desire, and carrying around boxes and boxes of quarters is just getting to be too much, APMEX has an answer for you.  APMEX, of course, is American Precious Metals Exchange – one [...]

With the wild swings in the nearly all areas of the stock market and other investments over the past several months, you might be wondering if it was worth all that trouble to diversify your investments.  After all, the much-heralded mutual fund has pretty universally taken a beating.  I know that every fund I own [...]

I’ll be quick to clarify – that’s the annual deficit, not the national debt.  The deficit is the amount that’s added to the debt in any given year – the debt is the total amount owed.  Any year that we run a deficit, no matter how small it is, we’re actually adding to the national [...]

The shiny yellow metal we all know and love is sitting at $1,004 per ounce right now.  That’s a whole lot of money for an ounce of this precious metal.  Normally when gold is high, that indicates fear of the dollar and other investments.  Sounds about right for today’s world – the dollar is a [...]

Having received their copy of the 1,000+ page bill just hours before voting, reportedly none of the Congressmen who voted on the bill actually read it.  That’s right, these men and women are voting on a bill that will spend nearly $800 Billion future taxpayer dollars, and they can’t honestly say they know what they [...]

Welcome to the February 18, 2009 edition of the carnival of net worth.  Lots of great submissions this week – take a few minutes and visit the ones that catch your eye. BankMan presents Why You Need a High Yield Savings Account posted at High Yield Savings Accounts, saying, “Everyone needs a high yield savings [...]

We all pay federal income tax.  Some pay state income tax.  Nearly all of us pay sales tax.  Social security tax.  Medicare tax.  Property taxes if you’re a homeowner.  These are all taxes that we’re painfully aware of – we see them loud and clear.  But there’s an even worse tax than all of these, [...]

And when I say it’s good for you, I do mean financially.  Go ahead, take your wife to that movie she’s been wanting to see.  Stop at Starbucks afterwards and enjoy a $6 coffee.  Heck, even spring for that $5 brownie that looks so delicious.  The point is, you need to splurge a little bit [...]

Banks aren’t lending; people aren’t spending.  That’s what’s wrong with the economy today ( at least, on a very, very basic level. )  So, what to do?  Well unless you’re a bank, the answer would seem to be “spend, spend spend!” And indeed, if we all get together and spend like crazy, our country’s economic [...]