Archive for November, 2008
Envelope Budget System
Having difficulties tracking your budget? Have you mastered the budgeting process only to find out that you go over your alloted amounts on a monthly basis due to poor tracking skills? One way to combat this problem is to utilze MS Excel to its potential by downloading your online banking activity on a weekly basis [...]
The New Money Math (Source: Men’s Health)
Men’s Health magazine had an article in its December 2008 edition related to personal finances, so I thought I would share it with the readers of this blog (Thanks to Germano for letting me rip this out of his subscription). The tag line of the article was “The current economic mess happened because lenders, and [...]
Financial items from across the world wide web
It’s Sunday, so that means alot of football watching for me today. We have family in town this week for the Thanksgiving holiday, so we all will be going over to a friend’s house to watch football on Direct TV. While perusing the financial web today, I came across some good articles from [...]
Run Your Life Like A Business – Part 1 of many…
As you can see in the header of my website, I have chosen the tag line of “Run Your Life Like A Business.” I chose this statement because I think individuals and families across the nation take for granted their personal financial situation, unless they are in times of trouble. You really should monitor your [...]
ETFs and Mutual Funds – what’s the difference?
Mutual Funds, in the simplest terms, are traditional actively managed funds of stocks usually. There are also funds that specialize in other things such as bonds, indexes, etc, but the average mutual fund is managed by a group of investment managers that choose a particular investment strategy (i.e. long term growth) and buy and [...]
