All Entries in the "Money Management" Category
Why You Should Open a Mint.com Account Today
Mint.com is the premier free way to manage your money online. Here are five reasons to open a Mint.com account today: Makes Your Life Easier At Mint, we believe money is for living. So we make everything simple and streamlined. Sign up takes less than five minutes. Then Mint automatically pulls all your financial information into one place, so you [...]
Bag lunch = Make Money
I have brought my lunch to work for nine straight working days and I’m actually started to get used to it now. Here’s the caveat…I travel approximately 30% for business, so when I travel, I eat out. But, in that case, the lunch is paid-for by a client or my firm and the only downside [...]
Chart of the Day, CNN Money Questions and Other Items from Today
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — U.S. stocks were poised for a lower open Monday, taking cues from European markets as investors worry about a possible bailout for Portugal. Dow Jones industrial average (INDU), S&P 500 (SPX) and Nasdaq (COMP) futures were down ahead of the opening bell. Futures measure current index values against perceived future performance. // [...]
New Year’s Resolutions
2011 is upon us and now is the time to make and act upon New Year’s Resolutions. I have various family and work oriented resolutions, but I’ll just focus on my financial and personal health goals of 2011 in this short article. 1. Max-out 401(k) contributions. The 2011 401(k) contribution max is set at $16,500, [...]
Would you invest in yourself?
In conjunction with the recent investment talk at this website recently, I wanted to ask our readers a question related to the tag line of this website, “Run Your Life like a Business.” Would you invest in yourself if you were a business? Have you ever contemplated such a thought process? What exactly would you [...]
Mint.com Summary and Review
Mint.com is by far one of the flashiest, sleekest, most-web-2.0-ish personal finance applications to hit the market in quite some time. Will it revolutionize your personal finances? Read on and see for yourself. (Review provided by http://personalfinancesoftwarereviews.com/mint/) We have used Mint.com for some time now. It is the most user-friendly, basic, free online personal finance [...]
Berkshire Hathaway Meeting
Mr. Buffett’s annual meeting occured on May 1, 2010. The Visitor’s Guide to this great event can be found here. I’m about a month late in writing this very brief blog post, but I wanted to make sure I published it anyways, better late than never. I occasionally receive emails from Keys to the Vault [...]
Bank On North Carolina
The Bank On North Carolina program is a project of State Treasurer Janet Cowell and Banking Commissioner Joe Smith. “Bank On North Carolina is a program designed to help families make better use of financial services to convert their wages into wealth. With an initial focus on connecting qualified “unbanked” households – those without any [...]
