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Posted in Budgeting, Credit cards on Dec 19th, 2011
When financial-aggregation site Mint.com came out a few years ago, I remember having several questions: How are they going to get people to sign up and enter all their usernames and passwords? Won’t people be too scared? How are they going to make money? They addressed the first one right out of the gate—security was [...]
Posted in Budgeting, Real Estate on Nov 14th, 2011
The New York Times has a great article we can all learn a lesson from. In How a Financial Pro Lost His House, financial adviser Carl Richards tells the story of how he got caught up in the go-go enthusiasm of the mortgage bubble and wound up buying more house than he could afford. It’s an honest, [...]
Posted in Budgeting on Nov 4th, 2011
Picking a cell phone carrier isn’t easy. Today’s ads have so much fine print it’s hard to tell what you’re agreeing to when you sign a two-year agreement. But each carrier has its own features that make it unique. Let’s take a look at each one to see how they stack up. Sprint: Unlimited Data [...]
A month ago, I wrote Cable TV is Here to Stay…for Now. I had just finished doing a whole bunch of research on ways I could cut my cable and decided most people weren’t ready to make the jump. There wasn’t (and still isn’t) a convenient, reliable way to kill your cable bill and replace all [...]
