Last week I reviewed the new book Invest Like A Shark, which advocates an in-and-out, take-a-bite-and-swim-away sort of approach to investing over a buy-and-hold philosophy, the point being that buy...

(Photo from ExtremePumpkins.com, check them out, there's plenty more where this came from) Noted investing blogger Charles Kirk has busted out his latest list of "Spooky Stocks"-stocks...

Tricks and treats from perfi bloggers: Boston Gal<: Yup, the Fed cut the funds rate by .25 to 4.50%. How long do I have until ING drops the 4.3% interest rate on its saving accounts? After the last...

I woke up this morning to a National Public Radio story about the ongoing mortgage crisis, especially those "subprime" borrowers who are in danger of foreclosure. On the radio I could hear...

If you want to make money in the stock market, conventional wisdom says to buy/hold/wait and eventually you'll make some money. Some of us don't want to wait that long. James...

Part 26 of our loooong, ongoing series looking at the wisdom found in the Letters to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders penned by the one the only Warren Buffett. This installment-the year 2002... which...

If you're not familiar with the term "golden handcuffs," it generally refers to giving employees or customers incentives to keep doing what they're doing-working for or with your...

While I'm more than willing to be assertive when I think I'm being taken advantage of, I'd like to be a better negotiator and a better haggler when it comes to what I pay for things....

Via Lifehacker, a really interesting post from Millionaire Mommy Next Door on how ditching home ownership in favor of renting improved both her financial life and her feeling of freedom. You could...

Reading Get Rich Slowly today & wanted to add my thoughts to J.D.'s requests for stories about financial success. My story is less about a specific success and more about a philosophy that has...

Giving a shout out to these recent posts: Free Money Finance: Here's one topic I'm really sick of hearing about: how people are leaving college with boatloads of debt that make living their...

Interesting column by Charles Wheelan at Yahoo Finance this week about the phenomenon of women taking maternity leave at their jobs and then quitting the job once the maternity leave is over. They get...

Cab drivers in New York City have been making a big stink over the fact that they've been forced to add credit card machines to their taxis, because it forces them to pay credit card transaction...

Back in November I wrote about a site called Wesabe, which is sort of like an online Quicken but uses the whole "wisdom of crowds" things to help you save money. A similar site, Mint,...

I love my gay neighbors. But I'm very jealous of them. Like last night. It was Sunday, right? They had a big party. We weren't invited, but we wouldn't have gone anyway because our kids...

Post of the week has to go to Madame X at My Open Wallet, who got over 100 people to tell how what they do for a living, where they live, and what they're getting paid. A random sample: I'm......

This post at Wise Bread reminded me of a garage sale I once went to where the people were selling their kids' used underwear, (or "underpants" as my Mom says, a word I find disgusting)....

Read on... Via The Consumerist: Delta says the mother of infant conjoined twins need to buy an extra seat, because each child has her own set of lungs and needs separate emergency oxygen masks, then...

Flexo has a good post on ticket scalping, a subject I have thought about a lot but never blogged. To follow up on his thoughts, here are mine. It sucks to want to see a show or sports event and......

Back in May, I covered American Express's new program, in which it lets cardholders pay their mortgages with a credit card. But it was full of downsides, as you can only do it if you pay $395 as...