Make sure you check out the Carnival of Pecuniary Delights on Greener Pastures.  There are a bunch of great links to personal finance articles, including one of my older ones.  See if you can find it!

Readers: The following post is lengthy to say the least.  The point of the post is obvious, what I do in it is break down the overall cost of text messaging compared to other data services.  Feel free to skip to the middle portion called “Cost Per Gigabyte of Data” for the interesting stuff.  I’m [...]

Is Star Wars just a fantasy world or can we learn some things about personal finance too? As a young lad I was exposed to the original trilogy, watching the movies with every sick day I could force out. Many of the broader subjects, like government corruption escaped my youthful imagination. However in a recent [...]

Recent is always a relative term.  In this case the recent stock market rally is in reference to indexes being at four month highs. I’ve said before that a likely recovery of our economy would be lead by the stock market.  Following closely behind that would be consumer spending, corporate earnings, GDP, and finally employment. [...]

Welcome to the 203rd Carnival of Personal Finance.  When determining a theme for this week’s carnival I wondered what one should do for a theme?  I thought about swine flu, a reference to Obama’s first 100 days, or perhaps Cinco de Mayo.  All good choices but I dug deeper.  What is the purpose of the [...]

What the heck does that mean?  I thought that myself when I first saw the link to their website a couple of weeks ago.  If you don’t know, I’m a huge fan of the ICanHasCheezburger network of blogs.  They include the before mentioned ICanHasCheezburger as well as Failblog, IHasAHotdog, and ThisIsPhotobomb (among others still). This [...]

No time to waste, let’s jump right in to the editor’s choice.  Okay okay, we have time for one funny picture, but then editor’s choice! There was a lot of good reading around the interwebs this week. Of of my favorite money writers is a fella named Frank who runs Bad Money Advice. I’m not [...]