Interesting article in the South Florids Sun-Sentinel about cities racking up humongous charges on their credit cards in order to get big rebates from the credit card companies: port St. Lucie is...

I hear voices: Debt Hater: "I remained ignorant about money for a long time because I was afraid to look stupid. I started reading a book on the stock market and was so freaked out by the...

In my last post I referred to the salvation Army's holiday bell ringers and why they might be getting less than they used to. I mentioned that there seem to be an increasing number of non-profits...

I found this letter to the editor from an Albany paper interesting. The writer is discussing the sorry state of donations to salvation Army bell-ringers, and suggests that our increasingly cashless...

Dr. Evil: Okay, here's the plan. We get the warhead and then hold the world ransom for... 1 MILLION dollars! Number Two: [clears throat] Sir, strictly speaking, a million dollars will not go very...

Gregory Karp has a good article this week, catching up with Thomas Stanley, one of the authors of The Millionaire Next Door, on the 10th anniversary of the book's original publication. Stanley...

I came across this article from the Des Moines Business Record titled "Credit cards not accepted." The article profiles businesses in the Des Moines area that don't accept credit cards...

So far the results of my lottery experiment are, well, boring. On Friday there was another drawing, with winning numbers of 6, 7, 17, 28, 40 and Mega Ball of 39. None of these numbers matched even one...

Listen, pal: Tired but happy: He pulled his shiny SUV up next to my sh**box 1994 Japanese sedan. When he got out of his car, the first thing he said was, "That looks like a poor person's...

I just got back from the dentist and while there picked up some replacement gel for my teeth whitening trays that I had made a few years ago. I think the trays had set me back about $300 and the......

The second drawing in my lottery experiment took place Tuesday night. Here's how I did: Winning Numbers: 20, 30, 31, 35, 49 Mega Ball of 23 Using my Most Picked Balls method, I got zero correct...

If you're in college or maybe just got out and still regularly travel in a pack of close friends, you inevitably have those times where one person covers the share of the bill of another, or maybe...

Over at IndexCreditCards.com, we just released our list of the top new credit card introductions for 2006. You can mosey on over there if you want more details about the cards and how we chose them,...

OK, so my first lottery number picking based on complex mathematical probabilities (complex to me at least) is complete, and the results are not thus far encouraging. If you're not up to speed, my...

You know, sometimes people undeservedly knock the Cleveland area, but here's another example of why we kick buns. Check out this Christmas spirit: MENTOR, Ohio -- Firefighters said shoppers at a...

Well, actually, the quotes are just from me. I was reading Gregory Karp's Spending Smart blog today and I left two comments which I am re-using in order to pad my blog postings. (A writer should...

Advice on money... Ben Stein: If you're not rich, please don't show off at this time of year by spending money you don't have. My Open Wallet: ...I do tend to enjoy business travel, and of...

I've always been fascinated by the lottery. When I was finally of age to play the lottery, I did many times even though I knew of the ridiculously long odds. If I missed a drawing, I fretted and...

Almost halfway home in our 29-part series examining all of Warren Buffett's letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. With this post, we're moving into the 1990s, yay. To be precise,...

CNBC has relaunched its Web site, after basically taking a hiatus from it altogether, and it's obvious they've put a lot of thought into it. I took it for a little spin today, and here are...