Do You Have Enough Personal Liability Insurance In Your Homeowners’ Policy?
Homeowners insurance protects you and your family for both your house and personal property in the event of property damage or loss of personal items. Typically, homeowners’ insurance policies have...
For Women Only
Mortgage, Savings & Investment, Smart Spending
If you ask me why I think this blog is for men, I really don’t have an easy answer. Maybe because I think of do-it-yourself men wearing tool belts strapped...
Start Investing With The Big, Expensive Brokerage Firms
No, I am not kidding, even a little. As I noted in my last post, there is a large population of people that know they should be investing, but thus...
Starting Social Security Early
You pay into social security your whole career and you begin receiving benefits from this program when you retire. However, not everyone retires at the same time. The amount...
Closed-End Funds–Safe Leverage?
Savings & Investment, Smart Spending
There are many different ways to invest, from stocks, bonds, ETF’s and plain old mutual funds. But there is a neglected corner of the investment universe that may soon be...
Many People Want Investment Help: Here’s How To Get It
The investing industry does endless surveys to try and figure out how to get new clients and they all come back with more or less the same answers. Those already...
Is Government Economic Data Useless?
Economic News, Savings & Investment
Well, if you are looking for accurate numbers to base long(er) term investment decisions on, then yes they are. If you are just trading for the day then it really...
PrimeRates Market Talk: What Gov’t Shutdown? Time For Some Data
As expected, Wall Street has quickly moved on from the government shutdown. Well, let me rephrase that. Some analysts have continued to whine, most notably the most bullish. The shutdown...
The Government Shutdown Is Over. For Now.
Have you ever heard of the five stages of grief? It’s a hypothesis for what people go through when faced with some awful event, like death or trauma. They are...
Consolidate Your Orphaned 401Ks and Save Money
Retirement, Savings & Investment
If you’ve contributed money to your 401K at your job, you’ve made the smart and financially responsible choice. However, when you start a new job, you will get a new...
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