Since I first started learning about personal finance there have been some areas where I’ve struggled to develop a full understanding. Most of them are centered around insurance and taxes. I’m still not very good with insurance, but I’m getting better with the tax stuff. One area of taxing and wealth management that has always [...]

In the blogosphere there are tons of link roundups out there.  But there’s only one that irregularly and is handpicked by me.  Enjoy the best of the web from the last couple of months: Doctors die differently: This was perhaps one of the most thought-provoking articles I’ve read in the last year.  A significant portion [...]

Taxes are notoriously one of the most complicated things to understand. For the everyday citizen, taxes are a once-a-year headache that we are happy to pay someone else to do for us. Some like to do the taxes themselves or let software make a pass, but very few people actually understand the process, the lingo, [...]

From the NY Times: …a man walked into a Target outside Minneapolis and demanded to see the manager. He was clutching coupons that had been sent to his daughter, and he was angry, according to an employee who participated in the conversation. “My daughter got this in the mail!” he said. “She’s still in high [...]

According to an informal poll of people yesterday everyone in the United States does the same thing for Valentine’s Day. We complain about it being a Hallmark holiday and that it’s stupid to celebrate your love with someone special on the same night as everyone else. Then we do all the things we’re supposed to [...]

A new study says that a significant majority of people would be fine to have their employers temporarily increase the amount the employee contributes to retirement plans up to 10%. I would certainly fall into that category myself as most of you likely would too. But isn’t that sad? Why don’t people just temporarily increase [...]

Joanne Muller over at Forbes did some interesting digging on the car buying habits of Americans. Less than 40% of rich people (defined in this case as those making $250k+) actually buy luxury cars. And about 8% of people earning less than six-figures do. Now that doesn’t sound all that crazy but Thomas Stanley extrapolated [...]

Last week Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a press conference. In the conference he was asked about a number of things, including the Fed’s target inflation rate eroding away the savings of people. You likely know your bank account it paying practically nothing in terms of interest, say 1% (for argument). But inflation is much [...]