Manage-Money.com provides: 25 Original Ways To Spend Your Money. It’s not your normal list of ways to save money. These are unique and interesting to spend your money.
My top five from this list are:
1) Take 6 months off work and do nothing.
2) Learn a language by total immersion in a foreign country for […]

Merriman Capital provides a great article on finding the best risk versus reward profile for each individual investor. This is a very well thought out article on how figure out your personal tradeoff between risk or reward when it comes to investing. Merriman Capital, also has a pretty decent podcast (as long as […]

From TechCruch, Google Checkout offers low-cost transactions for sellers; what’s in it for me? Um, ditto what they said!

I have to disagree with Matt Krantz of the USA Today. In his reader Q and A titled, “Six stocks? No, you are not diversified.”, he explains to his reader that he does not think owning six stocks in different sectors means you are diversified. In general, I get the point he is […]

Star Jones is leaving the View? Not that I enjoy the view, but I hate Star Jones! Good riddance you loud mouth.

Warren Buffett will begin to give 85% of his holdings in Berkshire Hathaway to philanthropic endeavors beginning in July. The biggest winner, getting approximately $30 billiion will be the Gates Foundation, the private foundation of Melinda and Bill Gates. The Gates family has been good friends with Buffett since the early 1990s.
Wouldn’t you […]

Personal Finance Advice, unveils the “Commute Helper”. You have got to read this. What an amazing, but somewhat scary job. Jump in a car with a stranger, and get paid to sit there so that the driver can get into the carpool lane and cruise to work. At $200 a day, […]

CNN reports that average daily CEO Pay is $42,000. All I can say is WOW. That is a lot of people’s annual salary. Houston, I think we have a problem.

Kiplinger’s, via Yahoo! Finance, brings us “What You Need to Know About ETFs”. Provided in this article are 6 important things to know about ETFs. Most important: ETF expense ratios are among the lowest compared to mutual fund index funds and this can boost your portfolio’s performance over time.

Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies says that we may have ups and downs but the long-term overall housing picture looks fine. “Demographic changes and population expansion will help keep home demand - and prices - healthy. The number of homes needed to meet demand in the next 10 years will likely exceed the […]