Personal Finance Articles This Week – Market Sell Off, Insurance & Haircuts Tips, March Madness, Alternative Income, Debt Reduction, Sneaky Best Buy, & Money Saving Tips
March 3, 2007
Market Sell Off The big news in the financial world this week was the market correction that spooked us all. Sun sees the market drop as a buying opportunity and Jeremie offers us a chance to buy discounted stocks virtually as he launches his eFIPO Stock Game. Insurance & Haircuts Tips Gen X finance reminds […]
Stock Picking, Insurance, Saving Money, & Blog Carnival Overload
February 25, 2007
Why Blog carnivals? The concept is to provide readers a quality collection of recent articles on a given topic and blog owners the opportunity to make their writings known. Since the first blog carnival in September of 2002 the number of carnivals has continually grown, with Blog Carnival now reporting a total of 1149 carnivals […]
Keeping Finances Simple – Two Wonderful Illustrations
February 7, 2007
Managing and understanding personal finances seems a daunting task to many people. The truth is you don’t have to be a money genius to keep your financial ship trimmed; you simply have to follow the basic principles. This often means being able to ignore many of the terms and confusions the financial industry has introduced […]
Carnival of Investing – Super Bowl Edition
February 5, 2007
The world of sports shares many common aspects with investing; such as analysis, strategy, performance, discipline, statistics, winners, and losers. Of course the financial stakes are often higher in investing than sports but there’s still a lot we can learn from watching teams and coaches prepare and play their game. What better place to look […]
Job Security, 401k to IRA, Credit Card Mistakes, & Restaurant Bills – Carnival Roundup
January 20, 2007
This week at Money Smart Life I touched on a variety of financial topics including job security, turning your 401k into an IRA, credit card mistakes, and saving money when eating out. Endless Gibberish hosted the Carnival of the Capitalists where I talk about the pros and cons of having a “secure” job that you […]
Taxes, Pay Raises, Investing, Real Estate, and an Interview in the Carnival Roundup
January 13, 2007
Another great week for personal finance on the web! Here at Money Smart Life I covered the topics of taxes, pay raises, investing, and real estate. Don’t Mess With Taxes welcomes us to tax season 2007 with the Carnvial of Taxes. Check out my entry if you want to know how to pay your personal […]
Carnival Roundup – Bringing in the New Year
January 5, 2007
It’s been a fun week, lots of good stuff to read to get us started off right in 2007. Most of the articles I contributed to Carnivals had a connection to the new year. I talked about the benefits of rebalancing your portfolio at the Carnival of Investing. The end of the year or start […]
Festival of Frugality #54
December 27, 2006
Welcome to one of the most happening festivals around! Internet Explorer users please excuse the mess as the uplanned hosting caught me in the middle of a theme upgrade. I didn’t have time to do each submission justice with a comprehensive review so all I can say is, get ready to meet some frugal people! […]
Carnival Highlights – 12/21/2006
December 21, 2006
I’ll start out with the The Festival of Frugality #53 hosted by Amy Clark over at momadvice.com. Amy enjoyed my contribution on saving money on baby’s Christmas pictures and gave it one of the best posts of the week! Alright Amy! One of the things I had the most fun writing this week was Three […]
Carnival Roundup – 12/15/2006
December 15, 2006
It was Carnival Crazy this week at Money Smart Life: I talked about budgeting over at the Carnival of Debt Reduction Discussed what your 401k provider isn’t telling you at the Carnival of Investing Warned others about the dangers of automated bill pay at the Carnival of Personal Finance Talked about real vs fake Christmas […]
