Archive for October, 2005

“If the rich could hire others to die for them, the poor could make a nice living.” – Yiddish Proverb

For those of you that have an online presence and are looking to earn a little extra money on top of google adsense revenue, you may want to check out Chikita eMiniMalls. Nate and I started using them a couple of weeks ago to compliment adsense (you can see how we placed them in the [...]

President Bush has asked for a simpler tax process and set up a panel to make recommendations. While the report is not final, the recommendations that the panel is considering have been reported and the panel’s final report will be delivered to Treasury Secretary John Snow in about two weeks. While it isn’t set in [...]

While it’s predicted this Wednesday’s Powerball lottery will be the largest cash prize ever at some $340 Million, remember the odds before you think you are going to win. From Probability Of Winning The Lottery – Don’t Waste Your Money: You are 6 to 45 times more likely to die from a lightning strike, 18 [...]

Fortune Magazine has an exclusive sit-down conversation with Bill Gates and Warren Buffet and a couple of “speak out” sessions. Some highlights Both predict the S&P 500 will perform below a 10% average per year over the next 7 years. From Gates: This desire to have high absolute returns–and seeing that places like Harvard University [...]

“That’s the American way. If little kids don’t aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?” – Lee Iacocca

The personal finance and debt reduction carnivals are both live. Frugal Underground is hosting the one on debt reduction and My Money Blog is hosting the one on personal finance. There are a wide variety of submissions this week that should make for good reading. My contributions this week were Cinderella Investing and Savings Assumptions.

As I mentioned before, when it comes to investments, saving money is usually the diamond in the rough that nobody recognizes. In fact, saving money is plain and simply the best investment you can make. It is, however, often difficult to convince others of this. I did a search for “The best investment you can [...]

Running a website about personal finance and saving money, I get some strange emails from time to time and yesterday was one of those times. I received an email from a person looking for help with her credit report: …I can’t do anything I want because my credit score is too low. I had to [...]

“Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” – Robert Orben