Christmas recap: Happy children, broken toys, frustrated and disappointed parents, followed by some singing of Fah who for-aze, Dah who dor-aze! just to show that it's not all about gifts and...

One of the nice things about being from a filthy rich family is that even if your grandfather gives away 97% of his money to charity, you're still going to do just fine. If you haven't heard,...

Merry Christmas to all! I'll be off until after the big day, so... To get in the spirit and still keep our finance theme alive, below are the lyrics to one of my favorite Christmas songs - Pearl...

Every now and then you might hear about the alternative minimum tax, or AMT, and how it is snaring more people each year, meaning more and more of us are trying to figure out how to avoid it. I'm...

Interesting article I came across about whether we are truly becoming a cashless society.. In it, the author relays a story about going out with a group and having the restaurant's credit card...

Learned about this from Flexo at Consumerism Commentary. It's PriceProtectr, which puts a watch on items you've purchased and lets you know if the price drops within the store's Price...

I haven't quoted my fellow personal finance bloggers in much too long. Some of what I've been reading: Alpha Consumer: My friend Nader Iskandar, co-owner of the Book Cellar & Café...

I wrote last week about paying a little more for things of value, and yesterday my company got a painful lesson in this. This is a business story, but it can easily be related to many things in our...

There's a good chance you're familiar with Liz Pulliam Weston. She has a syndicated personal finance column that appears in my local newspaper and perhaps yours as well, and she is a popular...

It's going to be Liz Weston day today at Zen Personal Finance, as I'm quoting her column and reviewing her latest book. I often think articles on holiday gift ideas stink-they're usually...

Last week over at IndexCreditCards.com we named the top ten new credit card introductions of 2007. We looked at the new credit cards that launched this year and then ranked the ten best based on how...

Last year I wrote a few times about Zecco, the startup offering free stock market trades. I was hesitant to put any money there and I didn't know anyone else who quite trusted it, either. But now,...

Recently I bought the best pair of shoes in my life. They are the Clarks Escalade, and they are pictured above. For a while I had been looking for a brown shoe that wasn't super dressy but...

I count myself as a long-time convert to compact fluorescent bulbs - one because they save money for me, and two because they last a long long time so I rarely have to change them. I'm also aware...