I don’t know about you, but I can’t see the same people on TV and in the news over and over again without likening them to Star Wars characters.  If you’ll remember I had a similar problem with Star Wars and money lessons.  Just me? Okay so I’m weird. I started compiling a list a [...]

Yesterday President Obama allowed Geithner and his Treasury Department to once again speak to the media. They’ve finally given us the details on the $75 billion program designed to help people stay in their homes.  The banks stocks took a beating on this news and a report that 20% of mortgages or underwater (meaning the [...]

With the Almost Insolvent Group setting the record for the worst quarterly loss in the history of corporations ($62 billion) and the resulting fourth bailout of the struggling company, many are asking “Why did we keep bailing out AIG?” Why keep throwing good money after bad?  Let them go under so we can move on [...]

I was Googling the question “should I still floss every day” because I hate flossing and wanted to see if some dentists thought it was okay.  Google’s suggest feature came on after “should I still”.  Look at the suggestions.  7 out of 10 have to do with investing.  Scary. Oh and in the end I’m [...]

Welcome to the lucky number 13th Weaky Award. This has remained my favorite segment since the blog got started about a year ago. Today I want to introduce you to the Sleeper Family. Aside from have a really cool last name, the Sleepers also have a really cool house. Their house is built into a [...]

There has been an enormous flight to gold investing over the past few months.  It started towards the end of 2008, but has really picked up steam as the stimulus plan was unveiled and ultimately approved stirring more worries about deeper recession. With the price recently surpassing the $1000 mark again, investors are back with [...]

If you don’t know, the Carnival of Personal Finance is a traveling list of great blog entries from the previous week or two.  Bloggers submit their articles and the host that week gets to pick who gets on the list (most usually do). This week’s carnival is hosted by Free Money Finance.  Go check out [...]