Why take advice from a financial guru? Most of them were wrong about this financial crisis!
Would You Follow His Investment Advice?
Way back when, I wrote about Cramer’s Mad Money advice for stock pickers where I picked up a lot of great tips. Lately though, Jim Cramer has been in the limelight, but not [...]
Have you read The Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham? These two books are considered as must read for value investing, but they are all pretty heavy books, especially the Security Analysis. If you just want to grab the essentials of the books, then there’s on article on Forbes about Graham’s three timeless [...]
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Another week gone by, and another week without the baby. We were really expecting her last week at the latest. Oh well, the doctor said she has to come out one way or the other next week, so there better be a change in status next Friday!
I also want to announce the winners of this [...]
About the Author: Jeremy is a retirement planning specialist and founder of Generation X Finance and the guide to Financial Planning at About.com. To learn more, follow Jeremy on Twitter.
Tax day is quickly approaching and so is the IRA contribution deadline, April 15th. If you haven’t funded your IRA or Roth IRA for last year, time is growing short. Vanguard is always a good option with lots of funds to choose from and Etrade is offering 100 free trades if you open a new [...]
I was flipping through our Costco coupon book this month and noticed a sign up bonus for ShareBuilder.
They are offering a $90 sign up bonus for executive members and a $70 sign up bonus for gold star and business members. Happy Free Money Friday!
How to Get Your Sign Up Bonus
Sign up for a new [...]
Below is a guest post from LAL from LivingAlmostLarge and LAL Musings. I’ll let her introduce herself: “I’m a twenty-something DINK, living in the northeast searching for financial freedom. I hope to one day live large and be financially free, but it’ll only happen one step at a time. I admit to not [...]
Merger News
Suncor (SU) is about to potentially merge with Petro Canada (PCA) in an all stock exchange to become the largest energy company in Canada. Should the deal meet Canadian government approval, both companies will trade under the symbol SU. Existing PCA owners will receive 1.28 shares of SU for every share of PCA that [...]
The following guest post if from Neal Frankle of WealthPilgrim.com. You can read more about Neal’s inspiring story immediately following this post.
If you’re lucky enough to be a huge, multi-gazillion dollar company like AIG, you can afford to make a few tiny financial mistakes. Lose a few hundred billion here or there. No problem [...]
So who cares about yet another credit card? Well, I thought to bring focus to one of those ways you can actually save money, provided that you are highly disciplined with paying your bills and managing your debt. How about revisiting the topic of rewards credit cards? When you use such cards [...]
if you are interested in having the bullion in your portfolio, of course.
ETFs
This is probably the easiest way to invest in precious metals, gold and silver. There are some several precious metal ETFs available as I discussed in my previous post. Among them, two are very popular: SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) and iShares Silver Trust [...]
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This is a guest post by Dana. Dana writes for the Investoralist, a blog that explores the fundamental principles of successful investing, and provide meaningful discussion of the topic based on a holistic look at the macro-investing environment.
We are in a severe recession – some say the worst since the Great Depression. For months, [...]
About the Author: Jeremy is a retirement planning specialist and founder of Generation X Finance and the guide to Financial Planning at About.com. To learn more, follow Jeremy on Twitter.
My new business partner wanted to know what he needed to keep track of for his new venture into self employment this year. I ran through the list of self employed business deductions I have used in the past to get him started.
While I was working on the list, it occurred to me that [...]
The failed bankers on Wall Street have been whining that if they have to cut bonuses and salaries dramatically, they’ll be unable to recruit great talent, and they need great talent to fix the situation.
And for years, boards have been claiming that they need to pay CEOs $50,000,000 salaries in order to recruit the very [...]
I’m reviewing Money Magazine’s 7 New Rules of Financial Security. You can read Part 1 here.
Rule No. 4: Borrowing
Old thinking: Borrowing sensibly is a good way to build wealth.
New rule: Borrow cautiously. You have to worry about the other guy’s debt too.
Money Summary: Credit was cheap and plentiful like food at Sizzler. [...]
“It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.” – Yogi Berra
In 1996, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan coined the term “irrational exuberance” to describe what he felt was unjustified speculation in the stock market as the S&P 500 rose past 744. Now, 12 years later, the S&P500 has moved past 744 [...]
I’ve been spending some time looking for a secret hideaway where I can get more writing done. I’ve accepted a couple freelance opportunities, in addition to my writing here at Frugal Dad, in an attempt to sprint to the finish of this debt snowball plan. In doing so, I’m finding myself needing more and more [...]
The stock market looks like it’s recovering a little, probably in response to a spate of relatively “better” news about the financial world and the economy. Here’s what I’m seeing as possible reasons that people are once more jumping back into the stock market fray:
President Obama is cheerleading his way through the crisis. [...]
Lending Club, the only SEC registered peer-to-peer lending site, today announced the introduction of the first ever self-directed IRA to let lenders save for retirements through P2P lending. The new self-directed IRA accounts are managed by EntrustCAMA, a custodian of both self-directed and real estate IRAs.
Currently, Lending Club self-directed IRA plan participants can choose to [...]
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Lending Club Introduces Self-Directed IRA in Peer-to-Peer Lending
One of the two funds in my mutual fund portfolio that I don’t buy regularly is Third Avenue Estate Value Fund (TAREX), though I have owned this fund for years (the other one is Tocqueville Gold (TGLDX), but I bought TGLDX more often). When I first bought TAREX, the initial minimum investment was something like [...]
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Your emergency fund is your best friend if you lose your job in this bad economy. We’ve had an emergency fund in an online savings account ever since we joined the work force and last week was the first time I thought I might have to use it.
Losing my Job?
One afternoon last week a co-worker mentioned that the [...]
Our favorite credit card has a new number. Ugh! We’ve had this card for years, since it deposits 2% into our kids’ 529 plans. In fact, we even have the card number memorized!
We were notified that millions of MasterCard holders account numbers were compromised last week and issued a new card. Sure, no big deal. [...]
So I’m sitting here pondering the purpose of money and how it fits in the world. My conclusions? When it all comes down to it, money is meant to be spent, but we should be selective over what we spend it on.
Let me elaborate. For me, I’m a fairly frugal person who does not like [...]
I have tried, over the years, to post my resume to job boards for both traditional jobs and contract positions. I’ve also tried to get hourly consulting work through various boards, too. I have landed jobs through the (now) unlikely source of monster.com, for example. In 2000 I got a job through monster.com. But [...]
Stacey from familylifebydesign.com gave me a heads up last week on a new product being peddled by Discover. While I like the Discover More card for grown-ups, I am not fond of the new product aimed at teens, and here’s why.
The new Discover Current card is being sold as a debit card alternative for [...]
You’ve probably heard about peer-to-peer lending before since it is starting to gain in popularity, but it’s still relatively new. Right now, the two major players are Lending Club and Prosper. Right now, Prosper isn’t taking on any new lenders or borrowers while it goes through its quiet period. Lending Club went through the same [...]
About the Author: Jeremy is a retirement planning specialist and founder of Generation X Finance and the guide to Financial Planning at About.com. To learn more, follow Jeremy on Twitter.
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