Archive for the ‘Making Money’ Category
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
This Kiplinger feature on MSN has a number of good ways that we waste money. Slide 12 of this series (these aren't my favorite ways of presenting things, but I see how it generates more ad impressions for MSN!) has the following suggestion:
If you're stashing your cash in a traditional ...
Posted in Investing, Making Money, Retirement, Saving | 2 Comments »
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
The final payments on my last Prosper.com notes have finally come in, and the total value of the notes I've invested in is now $0.00.
And it's going to stay that way.
This isn't Prosper's fault. It's mine. I'll explain.
I started investing in Prosper.com notes in June of 2006, as an experiment. ...
Posted in Investing, Making Money | 6 Comments »
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Are you graduating from college with a great job waiting for you? If so, congratulations! Not all of your peers are so fortunate.
I went straight to graduate school after college and was a "poor student" for quite a while: another six years after graduating from college. I quadrupled my salary ...
Posted in Making Money, Saving | 4 Comments »
Saturday, March 19th, 2011
Allowances for children are a tricky matter. Whether to tie allowances to chores or not is just one question to consider. I still don't think there's one right answer but that doesn't stop people from taking a stand. One of Gary North's articles today (in his members' section) has this ...
Posted in Kids and money, Making Money | 5 Comments »