What a crazy week it was in the market. Yet, as you’ve no doubt heard, the Dow Jones wound up down less than a percentage point last week. Yet with the extreme volatility, there was plenty of pain inflicted along the way.
Personally, I made no trades last week. None. But trading volume was at records. [...]
This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance by Everyday Finance once again features the best blog postings of the week. (Well, at least those related to personal finance anyway.) In addition to my article about how to Spend less eating healthy food, I once again am thrilled to make my one article per carnival recommendation.
Written [...]
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It’s Friday, so it’s time for this week’s reader-submitted Q & A. If you’d like to submit a question, click here for more information or simply email a question.
With all that’s going on in the economy, I feel like I should be doing something differently. Should I?
–Mike N., Tacoma, WA
STRAIGHTFORWARD ANSWER
You probably shouldn’t [...]
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Hope you had a great Fourth of July holiday weekend. Aside from some preventable sunburns, I had a blast. We spent a ton of time outside, including local festivals, time with family, and a lot of digging at the beach. Hey, when the weather’s good . . .
Also managed to play skeeball for [...]
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Two carnivals to tell you about this week, including the Carnival of Money Stories hosted by My Good Cents. All the articles are real-world experiences people have had with money. Check it out.
This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance, hosted by Greener Pastures, featured dozens of useful articles including a section of my hypothetical graduation speech [...]
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Although I am often asked to speak to recent grads, I have never been asked to speak at any graduations. But if I were, I imagine I would deliver something along the lines of this speech.
Today is part 4. To see the entire speech released so far, click here and read from the bottom [...]
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I just received the following message from the Treasurer from the state of Ohio (as did likely hundreds of bloggers). I receive a lot of spam, but given that I happen to know that this state Treasurer is on a major financial education kick, I read the email. It’s for a good cause (getting [...]
It’s Friday, so it’s time for this week’s reader-submitted Q & A. If you’d like to submit a question, click here for more information or simply email a question
Do I need to have all my debt paid off prior to retirement?
–Mick V., Uniondale N
STRAIGHTFORWARD ANSWER
Not necessarily, especially when it comes to your mortgage. And [...]
During the long-ago period of ever-rising home prices–
You: Wasn’t that, like, three years ago?
Indeed. Crazy, right? Seems like most people forget that prices haven’t been going down for that long. Anyway, one interesting phenomenon of the boom period was the homeowners nearly real-time use of that appreciation.
You: How is that even possible? [...]
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Where will the next bubble come from?
I just read an interesting article in Fortune Magazine by Geoff Colvin.
You: How interesting was it?
It was so interesting that I would even link to it . . . if I could.
You: You can’t?
Nope.
You: Why not?
I found the table of contents to the magazine online, but with no links to the actual articles.
You: Why would [...]
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