I've been stingy about adding personal finance blogs to this site's blogroll, usually because I look for blogs that are consistently well-written or interesting, and I only find so many. No...

If you happened to catch the Today Show this morning you may have caught Dannielle Kyrillos of DailyCandy.com talking about various Internet sites where you can get free stuff. Now there are a million...

I talk to a lot of reporters doing stories on credit cards and related finance issues, and very very very occasionally I am embarrassed when they end up teaching me a thing or two instead of the other...

If you work for someone else and have great group insurance coverage, consider yourself lucky. It's becoming more and more of a rarity, as this USA Today article notes: Last year, 60% of employers...

People always look at the price they pay for a new car or truck, but sometimes they forget to think enough about the ongoing costs, such as how much gas a particular vehicle will guzzle (or save)....

I'm not much of a cook, but I used to enjoy watching Martin Yan's PBS show Yan Can Cook, in which he would cheerfully make Chinese dishes and let you know that if "Yan can cook, so can...

I have been remiss in sending out the love to other PF bloggers, and today I find much goodness, starting with this first quote that just cracked me up: AskDong: My blog is not an investment blog....

If you trade individual stocks or think you might like to try, one important lesson to learn is that the future matters a lot more than the past. From the market's perspective, it's not even...

Via The Wealth Report comes more evidence that being rich is not merely a function of being born rich, but of making your own way: 1. According to a study of Federal Reserve data conducted by NYU...

A Random Walk Down Wall Street, originally published in 1973, just hit the shelves with its ninth edition. While many years have passed, and this classic has had many updates to avoid becoming dated,...

I heard about Kiva when it first launched, but had never spent a lot of time checking it out. I guess it got on Oprah recently and you know what happens once you're on Oprah. I read about it...

If you own a house or other real estate, you no doubt spend at least a little of your time wondering what you could get for your house if you tried to sell it today. While you'll never know for......

If you'd like your retirement years to be as happy as those of the nice ladies pictured at left, it pays to get your story straight on retirement vehicles. One area where confusion often reigns is...

I'm generally not a fan of the business parable book-dumbed-down, poorly-written stories that equate cheese with change (for one obvious example), and are meant to spur us into new attitudes and...

Somebody got my kids the board game Life for Christmas this year, and we finally opened it the other day. I always loved this game as a child, but, in keeping with a trend I've noticed in the toy...

This is the time of year when every article is telling you what you should do to get a fresh start and make your life all boffo socko in 2008. So why should I be any different? Here's my...

Part 27 of the series I've not been able to finish off offers a look at the words of wisdom of Warren Edward Buffett from the year 2003, as witnessed via his annual Letter to Berkshire Hathaway...

Over the years there have been many investing formulas invented that are supposed to be market beaters. One of the more interesting is the "Dogs of the Dow". The Dogs of the Dow theory says...