Personal Finance Advice

If you had any doubt that you could use your instincts to predict virtually any future event and make money, that doubt should quickly be fading. HedgeStreet, an online futures market which is government regulated has launched “hurricane contracts” to speculate on the damage they will cause.
There are two types of hurricane speculation in [...]

I met up with a friend this weekend along with a group of his friends who I didn’t really know. When they found out that I write about money matters and personal finance, I received the question that I almost always receive: “So, do you have any hot investing tips?”
Now I know what they are [...]

I mentioned that we had picked up a few new blogs that we added to our growing family last week. We found a writer for one of them. I’d like to extend a big welcome to Khyron who will be writing the Alpha Guy from now on:
…As for my background, I studied electrical engineering in [...]

I can tell I’ve been out of the US for awhile - there are just a crazy number of paid programming shows on TV these days. There also seems to be a huge number of “money making” paid programming advertisements on TV. What this tells me:
1) That these paid programming commercials make money (if they [...]

For those that are trying to reduce their debt, the sad facts are there are a number of scams out there that prey on people with money troubles that promise them a way which will only leave them even more in debt. One of these is one where they claim bank credit cards are operating [...]

I was recently reading an article about domain names and the prices that some of them are fetching and it occurred to me that this is an area where we should start investing. That’s not to say that I believe that I will pick five figure domain names to sell, but it seems to me [...]

It’s the start of a new week and here is some more reading on a number of topic that may be of interest:
There are some investing basics to remember that come handy when investing during a volatile stock market:

Diversify
Keep A Long-Term Perspective
Invest In Bad Times And Good
Don’t Forget Those Dividends
Market Declines [...]

If you are thinking about remodeling, getting ready to sell or just want to know where is the best place to spend your hard earned money in relation to your house, you need to be aware that the majority of home improvements fail to increase the value of your house enough to recover the cost [...]

The news from the Bureau of the Public Debt regarding the current I-Bond wasn’t pretty. While I-Bonds had been paying 6.73% during the previous period (November 1, 2005 to April 30, 2006), the new rates plunged to a measly 2.41%. I had written that I believed that something like this would happen so it really [...]

It’s the start of a new week and that means lots of new reading. If you have some extra time, check out these new articles from our satellite sites:
Invisible Investment Risks: What is invisible risk? It’s a risk investors almost never think about, until it is too late - and three of them that you [...]

Roger Sorenson who is the editor at Investing Page put together this little piece on how crazy things can get when speculation takes over a market. After reading it you might think that a similar case could never happen again, but never underestimate the power of perceived easy money and speculation can have:
Popular Delusions [...]

We have our newest satellite site up which is focused on the basics of investing at Investing Page. In addition to being a new sat site, it’s also our first sat site where we are starting out from day one with a manager for the site. Roger Sorensen, who has been writing on personal finance [...]

I believe that the best investment you can make is saving money and the easiest way to do it is through a simple investment plan. Part of that plan is using index funds to invest in stocks rather than managed funds. It seems a new report further confirms this as it seems that managed funds [...]

For a lot of pfbloggers and those that read us, the goal seems to be $1 million in net worth (or net worth minus housing). For those trying to attain this goal, you might think that wall street investment companies would be interested in helping you invest. According to Market Watch and a new study [...]

For those of you who have been looking for the straight talking truth about investing in stocks, here you go. “Straight Talk About Today’s Markets” by Century Global. Enjoy.

You’ll be able to get a lot more information on the Google Finance from other sources - it seems geared toward companies and investing rather than personal finances, but there is one nice feature that I wanted to point out for those tracking their individual stocks. If you have a Gmail account (if you don’t, [...]

Our satellite site Timeshare Trap received some good media coverage. I was quoted in an article by Gregory Karp in the Chicago Tribune titled Unloading Time Share Likely A No-Win Deal. It was nice to see a mainstream media outlet highlight this problem. The question of how to get rid of a timeshare [...]

One of the best places to begin when you decide to learn more about personal finances and investing is your local library. Public libraries have a wealth of information to tap into to better educate yourself about personal finances and investing. Now some libraries are taking it a step further by offering a free educational [...]

Welcome to the 12th edition of the Carnival of Investing.
The first five submissions are the ones I liked best (in no particular order) which really doesn’t mean a whole lot - especially as they pertain to information about investing. My sense on these things is a bit quirky, but what can I say - [...]

Being in Japan, I know very little about Jim Cramer’s Mad Money show. I’ve seen it mentioned on a few other blogs in the past and ran across a piece in the news that his book Jim Cramer’s Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World was named best personal finance book of 2005 by [...]