On Monday, Mrs. Micah issued this personal finance challenge:
Find one step you can take to make your financial system better or more organized.
Everyone has a personal finance system — even if you don’t think you have. Think about how you handle your income and your expenses, how you pay your bills, how you keep […]
Honesty is an important trait, so:
Be honest about your personal finances.
This includes being honest with yourself and honest with your partner. Everyone doesn’t have to know your money business, but your partner should know about it. My guest post on Sense to Save addreses having “The Money Talk.”
This post is part of the b5media Business […]
You never know when tragedy will strike, so it is important to:
Have proper insurance coverage.
You need to protect yourself against catastrophes and unexpected problems. Health, auto, homeowner/renter, life and other types of insurance to cover your needs are a good idea so that one tragedy doesn’t turn into a financial catastrophe as well.
This post is […]
The last personal finance tip was about opening a retirement account. This tip is what to do if your employer offers a match program for the retirement account:
Put in the maximum for your employer-match retirement program.
This is free money that will be leveraged on your behalf in the retirement account. Take as much as you […]
I am participating in the B5 Media Blog Off on Friday. In honor of the idea of posting once per hour, I am going to be posting personal finance tips. One every hour, from 12 a.m June 20, on the hour, until 11 p.m.
And I want your help. Email me with your best personal finance […]
Just thought I’d give a little link love to a couple of personal finance posts that I though were especially interesting today.
First of all, at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity offers a handy comparative chart of John McCain v. Barack Obama in terms of who pays taxes (shown here in part):
Income
McCain
Avg. Tax Bill
OBama
Avg. Tax Bill
Difference
(Obama - […]
Alan Greenspan is saying that by the end of the year home prices will be well on their way to recovery. However, it doesn’t mean that things are going to stabilize immediately. Bloomberg reports on home prices and the economy:
“Once the markets start to stabilize, especially if the real economies don’t go into a severe […]
In conjunction with the release of the book We Need to Talk: Money & Kids After Divorce, we’re having a contest at Yielding Wealth this week. Don’t forget to email me your personal finance questions. So far, I’ve been getting some good ones.
There is some good personal finance advice in this book, even for those […]
If you are an investor that goes in for the long-term, and may not be especially keen on the short-term trading, the WOW factor may not be what you are looking for.
In investing terms, stocks with the WOW factor may be seen as “growth stocks.” These are stocks that offer returns that might make you […]
So I was called to task for calling John McCain the only remaining Republican contender. I still think he’s got the nomination, but many people are interested, so I thought I’d cave and offer the basics of the Mike Huckabee plan. Since he still in the race.
And because I’ve got emails about it, I’ll do […]
Taking finances personally
Written by Miranda Marquit [email] for b5media.
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