Talking Biz News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yvette Kantrow, executive editor of TheDeal.com, writes Friday about how personal finance reporting has lowered itself to depths never seen before. Kantrow writes, “But a funny thing happens when you try to dumb down finance to make it palatable and useful. It becomes, well, dumb. If you tuned into Fox Business last week, you caught Susan [...]
Get Rich Slowly (Free subscription) | yesterday
Changed the title and URL, everyone. Sorry. I hadn't planned to post anything this afternoon, but about a million people (maybe a million-and-a-half) sent me a story about Crissy Thompson from Gainesville, Georgia. Crissy sometimes spends just $10 a week on groceries. For her family of five. How does she do it? Coupons. Jay Watson spent [...]
Lifehacker (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mint, the web-based financial management application that took us by storm a few months back , is adding investment tracking to their already impressive feature set. Mint's investments, currently in beta, tracks everything from the performance of your Roth IRA to the value of your 401k, all from its attractive, easy-to-understand interface. As with Mint in general, you'll need to be comfortable trusting...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
MarketWatch's Personal Finance stories for May 16.
Latest Local News Headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday
As an expert on personal finance, Jane Bryant Quinn admits it's much more fun to give a talk when the country is not in a recession.
The Consumerist (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you're a podcast sort of person, Get Rich Slowly has a list of 12 personal finance podcasts that they say are the best of the bunch—informative, entertaining, well-produced, and unique. "Money... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Center for Responsive Politics - News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Personal financial disclosure forms for Members of Congress, candidates for federal office, senior congressional staff, nominees for executive branch positions, Cabinet members, the president and vice president and Supreme Court justices were due to be filed yesterday covering calendar year 2007.
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
We're about to enter a new era in genetic testing, one in which we will learn more about ourselves and our predisposition to disease through a profiling of our molecular essence. It may be the ultimate in preventive measures: Your genes say heart troubles lie ahead, so your mind says eat cruciferous vegetables now.
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Strands has made a second recruitment in its effort to develop a Mint competitor called moneyStrands that leverages the same recommendation engine behind its video and music products. Just over two weeks ago Strands acquired Expensr, and now the company is announcing its acquisition of NetworthIQ. Both are personal finance applications that Strands’ wanted mostly [...]
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
PHOENIX, AZ (MARKET WIRE) Take Charge America is offering consumers four easy personal finance tips and is encouraging people to put the important, and often life-changing, task of financial clean-up at the top of their spring cleaning list this year.
Get Rich Slowly (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Occasionally I toy with the idea of creating a Get Rich Slowly podcast. I think it would be a great way to explore topics in greater depth, and in ways that print just cannot handle. I’m also fascinated with the idea of interviewing regular people about their everyday money concerns. I’m not ready to make [...]
Home Personal Finance (Free subscription) | yesterday
AP - Unless you're looking carefully, you'll likely miss the fact that the new Asylum Web site for young men is a creation of Time Warner Inc.'s AOL. Same for WalletPop on personal finance, Spinner on indie music and StyleList on fashion.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Unless you're looking carefully, you'll likely miss the fact that the new Asylum website for young men is a creation of Time Warner Inc.'s AOL. Same for WalletPop on personal finance, Spinner on indie music and StyleList on fashion.
Get Rich Slowly (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
While cleaning my office last Saturday, I stumbled upon a pile of old magazines. Most of these are copies of Modern Mechanix from the 1930s and 1940s, but the issue that caught my eye was the July 1971 edition of Motor Trend. Who wouldn't be tempted by a Buyer’s Guide that offered “40 cars for [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Gas prices have the crossed the line between being an unconscious expense to having become a painfully conscious one.
