Some chatter today about AOL upgrading its finance portal made me wonder: where's the best place for financial news? What are the one or two sites you go to when you want to check stocks, or want...

This isn't earth-shattering, but it's kind of cool. Capital One has introduced an online "Card Lab" in which you can build your own credit card, choosing the features that are most...

I love Christmas, maybe even more so than when I was a kid, because I get such a kick out of seeing my kids open their presents. But for the past few years I have been trying unsuccessfully to get......

I'm not a priss when it comes to privacy; I don't get all up in arms every time I think my personal info has been passed from one company to another. But I have my limits. And the latest...

With the never-ending talk about the rising costs of college tuition, you'd think it was impossible to get a college education without paying, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong. BusinessWeek...

This is cool. One of the criticisms of PayPal has been that although it's great for eBay purchases and has been widening its acceptance, it's still hard to use your PayPal balances to buy...

To its credit, Chase is ending a credit card practice that has had some consumers fuming in the past, both at Chase and other credit card companies that use it (which is most of them). Here's what...

Via Google Trends, I today learned about the Liberty Dollar, which has been running an alternative currency in the United States and just got raided by the FBI for reasons unknown. According to the...

I was pleasantly surprised by You Can Never Be Too Rich by Alan Haft. Here's why: when I first heard of the book, I was told that Alan Haft had partnered with actor James Woods in a production...

If you have insurance through work or have no plans on having children, this post is not for you. However, if you have to pay your own insurance due to self-employment or a job that simply doesn't...

Woke up today to find a note from E-Trade telling me that they can weather the financial storm even though they warned of disastrous sub-prime writedowns and Citi said the company could potentially go...

So many quotable posts today: Get Rich Slowly: What guarantee do I have that Get Rich Slowly can continue to produce enough income to support me? What guarantee do I have that I'll still want to...

For the first time in my life, I'm buying a totally new car, namely the 2008 Toyota Highlander. I have never purchased a spanking new car before, because I'm well aware that it's not a...

At left is a picture of my wife & I playing some silly shaving cream games while I shave and our personal photographer gets a shot of us. It would have been kind of sexy if not for the...

While writing the recent post about the "responsibilities" of the rich, I was reminded of this lyric from a song that is regrettably now almost 20 years old: Don't believe in excess/...

I often hear or read about the US dollar being strong or weak versus other currencies, but I never really know what that means, why I should care, or how it affects me. Instead of wallowing in my...

I read this blog post about megarich Silicon Valley veteran Tom Perkins today and then went over to 60 Minutes to see the segment for myself. In short, Perkins has a lot of rich guy stuff, including...