One of my investment friend recommended this site to me and I must say it is very cool! Foliofn is a company that essentially allows you to create your own mutual fund. You can buy partial stocks–so if you wanted to owe a share of Google, but not lay out the hundreds of dollars required [...]

Over the weekend the NYT ran an article of The Debt Trap a series of video and articles about various people in America who have ended up victims of the credit crisis. It is shocking to hear the stories of these people and how they tried to get ahead and despite their best efforts they [...]

Get your free Will & Trust Kit from Suze Orman.  I just started mine but for those people who haven’t set up a will yet, this is an easy and free way to get your documentation all squared away should something (god forbid) happen. Click on Enter gift code (the orange box button) and type [...]

I love sleuth work–Matlock was one of my favorite shows when I was growing up (at least when I was allowed to watch TV) and I used to consume mystery books the way Garfield eats lasagna.  One of my favorite reading sites is footnoted.org which is a finance/business oriented blog that speculates about various companies based [...]

For some reason I have been on a financial advice kick this week. Next week I will have to return to lighter topics like fashion. So there are a large amount of people I know who have debt. Now there is good debt and bad debt and it is important to understand the difference. Good [...]

All over the news people are talking about the mortgage crisis and the country plunging into a recession.  For many people this is bad news, and they are worried, however for some people the situation is begging the question—is now the time to buy real estate? One of the things I advise all my friends [...]

One of the most valuable things I learned in my economics classes (besides the words of wisdom–”buy a house as soon as you can, as young as you can”) was about the crossover point. This little pearl is the reason I actually stick to my budget and don’t by all the satin shoes I want [...]

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