Here is a good question from a Money Crasher’s reader that I thought I would share with everyone, because some of you may have the same question. Remember, don’t take my advice as gospel. Verify it with other people you trust in your life. I answer questions how I would do it [...]

Here’s the financial question of the day to bring us into the weekend. Ponder the question over the weekend, and post your answer in the comments section.
Who is Your Financial Mentor?
Name one person or a group of people that have influenced you in the way you manage your money. It could [...]

If you’re in your 40’s, 50’s, or 60’s, you’ll probably see the full social security benefits promised to you when you paid into the system throughout your working career. This article from CNN Money via Yahoo Finance, talks about the report that was released this week that Social Security funds will be tapped out [...]

I have been receiving a few emails from people asking a question similar to this:
If I owe taxes to the government for 2007, will I still receive the stimulus check?
Answer: YES. These refund checks had to be created somehow, so the government created a tax credit for 2008. Instead of [...]

I’m going to start a series where I review a consumer product from time to time that I have had either a bad or good experience with. The posts will be under the simple category, “Reviews”.
Today’s product is the Samsung LCD Flat-Panel family of Televisions.
What I own:
I have [...]

If you keep up with current events and/or financial news, then you probably heard about the demise of Bear Stearns, a once large investment brokerage firm. Many were shocked when the news came out that JP Morgan would be buying Bear Stearns at $2 a share, when months ago the stock was trading at [...]

If you haven’t already noticed, the housing market is correcting itself right now. That’s what capitalistic markets do, they correct themselves. The government has intervened a little bit, but for the most part, you are seeing the housing market fix itself. Unfortunately, thousands of hard-working citizens are losing their homes. They [...]

We all know that the housing market has crashed, and it is working to correct itself from the housing boom. Unfortunately, foreclosures and falling home prices are the result of the market correcting itself. However, as prices fall in your area and sellers become more desperate to dump the home they bought a [...]

If you stumbled across this site from a google search for information about the economic stimulus payment, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed, read about me, and introduce yourself to what this site is all about by reading about my 11 principles.
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April 15th is 27 days away, and I can actually hear some of you clenching your teeth right now at the thought of it. Isn’t ridiculous that doing your taxes takes such a big chunk out of our free time? One of the few good things the IRS has ever done for us [...]