If you haven’t seen in the news or noticed the commercials yet, Microsoft launched their new search engine this past week called Bing. Silly name, silly proposition. Ever since Google came on to the scene Microsoft has been on a quest of epic proportions to beat them in the search game. In search traffic they’re [...]

Stretchy Dollar interviewed a fascinating gentleman who is really a pioneer in personal finance.  You might even call him a Founding Father of personal finance.  That’s because it’s Benjamin Franklin!  This interview is so entertaining because the author uses actual quotes from this noted historical figure.  Creativity is a big win in my book, and [...]

My good friend Manshu, the man behind OneMint.com interviewed me this week about my experience being a banking insider.  Manshu is my kind of blogger, he focuses much more on the finance side of personal finance.  He knows investing like I know Star Wars.  You won’t find any of those questions about my personal finances, [...]

In keeping with the trend of have a short title followed by a longer title, the full cover of this book reads: Biography of the Dollar: How the mighty buck conquered the world and why it’s under siege.  Of note, I love this cover. The author of this biography is Wall Street Journal reporter Craig [...]

Ahh Memorial Day was fun huh?  We can always tell it’s here without looking at the calendar by simply driving by the nearest gas station.  Is it 25% higher than it was a month ago?  If the answer is yes than we’re in the season of flowers, bugs, and college commencement speeches. The capstone of [...]

We’ve talked about the makeup of the Dow Jones Industrial Average before.  My general opinion is that it’s a worthless index with no true bearing on the real world.  But that’s like telling your fiance The Hills is a stupid show or telling your co-worker Fox News has a right-wing bias; people still flock to [...]

What is the foundation of all of personal finance?  If you are thinking “spend less than you make” you’d be exactly right.  Once you’ve got that figured out you can focus on the other things like saving, investing, mortgages, budgeting, blah blah blah blah yawn. But what if you never had to think about anything [...]