Liz Pulliam Weston, provides some great tips in “50 Ways to Trim Your Budget”. Some of my favorites were:

Eliminate premium channels from your cable or satellite TV service.
Group your errands for better gas mileage.
Give up a vice (smoking, drinking, soda, salty snack foods).

The most stupid way to trim your budget: Ask friends and relatives for […]

From CBS Marketwatch,“S&P 500 logs worst May for 22 years”. The article states the cause of this is inflation and slowing economic concern, as well as uncertainty of Fed interest rates.
This shouldn’t worry the plain Jane/Joe investor. If you are dollar cost averaging into your 401(k) or other retirement accounts, all […]

CNBC’s Squak Box ran a play investing game in which the winner won a Maserati, with a sticker price of over $100,000. MSN Money provides a small article on the winner and his stock pick.

Jonathan Clements, who pens the “Getting Going” column for the WSJ, writes “Due Diligence: The Five Key Rules
To Heed Before Hiring a Financial Adviser” (subs. req.). Here’s a brief of his advice for hiring a financial adviser:
1) Use a fee-only adviser.
2) Work with someone who has credentials, such as a Certified Financial Planner and […]

John Wagonner of the USA Today says “When It Comes To Your Portfolio, Rebalancing Act Takes Good Timing“.  This is a very good article on the reasons and benefits of rebalancing.  However, Mr. Wagonner elaborates, “A better question is whether you should rebalance your portfolio, particularly if the market has knocked it out of whack. […]

In “Get Stuff Out of Your House”, from lifehack.org, we are given some great tips on major items to go through and the best way to get rid of them. While the author seems to be on a minimalist kick, this is definitely something that I need to work on. Especially that extra […]

General Motors Hopes $1.99 Per Gallon Gas Offer Moves Its Fuel Guzzlers, reports the Los Angeles Times. That’s right, buy one of their SUVs and they’ll pay you the difference between the national average gas price per gallon and a $1.99 for each month up to a specified time. Interesting mathematics behind this […]

Richard Jenkins wrote a very basic (and somewhat old) finance article for MSN Money, titled “Turn $1 a day into $67,815“. It’s still a great reminder of how simple it is to amass wealth. Towards the end of the article Mr. Jenkins provides other tips to reduce monthly spending pointing out “if you can […]

In Chicago Tribune’s Going Broke? Here’s How to Change Gears, we get some advice from Dave Ramsey on how to get back on track if in debt. One of the more interesting insights came via a formula of how much your vehicle(s) should be worth. According to Ramsey, “the current value of all […]

The cover story of this week’s Business Week is “Hot Growth”. Topping the list is VAALCO Energy, a small, independent oil company that looks to faraway places to find its oil. Rounding out the top 5 are Hansen Natural, Palomar Medical Technologies, W&T Offshore, and NAVTEQ.