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 Every Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book or other book of interest. Daniel Solin’s series of The Smartest X Book You’ll Ever Read have turned me off for their title alone, and thus, to this point, I’ve not read them. The title set off a big “questionable investment planning” warning light inside my mind and, with a ... As I mentioned a bit last week, we’re currently debt free except for our mortgage and a student loan with such low interest that it would be financially reckless to pay it back early. The CD in which we were keeping the money to pay for our Prius matured (it was earning a higher percentage return in a CD ... As a CPA, I’ve done several tax returns over the years. One thing I got to see when calculating capital gains and losses was what type of investments people were into. I saw a lot of portfolios made up of 5 to 10 single stocks. It shocked me that so many people were putting a great deal of their money ... 
The past few years have been especially tumultuous for many people as far as personal finance is concerned. There are a number of lessons that can be gleaned from this, and if you can take these lessons away from the past few years of losses, you may be able to perform better financially in the next few years. - Invest for ...I have discovered a surefire way to drastically increase the returns you get on all of your investments, no matter what you’re investing in. If you follow this advice, I guarantee that if you have a winning investment now (even if it’s just barely in the positive), my tip will strongly improve the cash that investment puts in your ...  Investing works best if you set it and forget it. However, at least once a year every investor should set aside some time to review their investment activities from the previous year. February is a great time to do this investment review because if you wait too long you’ll find yourself in the thick of tax season. Photo by kaolazymonkey via ... I absolutely love tuning into talk radio stations. It’s hucksterism at its most entertaining – the selling of fear is palpable and the line between content and commerical is so blurry I can’t tell if the host is on an economic rant or trying to sell me on a gold broker. Regardless of whether you think such talk show hosts ... 
Whether you are pushing thirty and trying to get your first home or your retirement is staring you in the face, there are times when you may feel as though you’ve run out of time financially. We don’t always make the best decisions when it comes to saving money and before long, we end up wondering where it all went ...  By Stacy Johnson
It’s that time of year again: everybody who’s anybody sits in front of a camera and gives predictions on the year ahead. But just how smart are these "experts"? We do more than give them air time; we go back and see just how smart they are by comparing previous-year predictions with what actually happened. Every December ... |
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