Hello world. I am writing to you from the road which means I don’t feel like writing at all. Today I’ve got some personal finance links to share with you. Again this is my attempt to cover more personal finance topics without actually having to write myself. My editor’s choice goes to a relatively new [...]

What do water boarding and Wall Street have in common? No, Goldman Sachs is not water boarding executives to get insider information. The CIA is involved with both, only your taxpayer dollars are paying for one of the activities. While water boarding will be shrouded in mystery and political arguments, what will not be is [...]

Peter Griffin, like Homer Simpson, is much smarter than people give him credit for. He’s not smart though (remember the Petercopter and the Hindenpeter?), just smarter than you’d think. One time, the local news agency gave Peter a segment on their broadcast called “You know what really grinds my gears?”. Peter used this segment as [...]

You’ve probably never heard of Koss. They are an American company that makes headphones, usually of the low end variety. For the most part, they’re just a company trying to make their way in the American dream. They’ve have their successes and failures over the years, including a bankruptcy in the 1980s, but for the [...]

The Federal Reserve will currently loan to banks for the low low rate or 0.25%. This is known as the Federal Funds Rate and the Fed decides what this rate will be based on the state of the economy. With a rate that is as close to zero as it will ever get, the message [...]

Well you kids asked for more personal finance articles and while I am going to try and write more of them I can’t cover everything in the personal finance blogosphere.  The best way to get them is through the links I provide, and the Carnival of Personal Finance.  The carnival is a rotating list of [...]

Of course I have to ruin Valentine’s Day. You knew this was coming. Valentine’s Day. We celebrate with someone special. We spend billions for cards, dinners, and….. flowers. My biggest problem with this holiday is that I don’t want to celebrate my relationship with The Sheconomist on the same day everyone else celebrates theirs. St. [...]

“Greece needs a bailout, the EU is scrambling to put together financial assistance to Greece, the Euro tanks and the dollar soars on word of Greece financial crisis”. Chances are a headline like the ones above has caught your eye in the last week. Like yourself, I saw them and didn’t pay much attention to [...]