Archive for the ‘Personal Finance’ Category
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Thirty-year mortgages rates haven't been this cheap in my lifetime. Considering this was the year of my 20th high school reunion, that's a fairly long time.
A fixed-rate mortgage costs more to obtain than an adjustable-rate mortgage of the same term because the lender bears the interest-rate risk. The means that ...
Posted in Banking, Personal Finance | 5 Comments »
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Banking of late hasn't been much to laugh about, but a couple of days ago I heard a term that gave me a pretty big laugh:
frequent flier (n.): a credit union member who makes regular use of overdraft privilege on their checking account.
Our credit union currently offers a couple of ...
Posted in Banking, Credit, Personal Finance | 2 Comments »
Monday, April 5th, 2010
Welcome to this week's Carnival of Personal Finance! I'm your host this week.
This may come as a shock to everyone but my wife, but I'll let you in on a secret:
I don't know everything. Especially about money.
That's part of the reason I started up Cash Commons -- so I could ...
Posted in Carnivals, Personal Finance, Uncategorized | 15 Comments »
Friday, February 26th, 2010
He really is.
I'm not talking about his blog. He's not a slacker there. The guy is a finalist for no less than seven Plutus Awards, one of which is for his PF Blogger Showdown series. (By the way, it looks like PT Money has a comfortable lead in our ...
Posted in Personal Finance | 5 Comments »
