Minding My Own Business

Manage money and learn about personal finance at the 176th edition of The Carnival of Personal Finance hosted at The Sun’s Financial Diary.
This week’s edition features my recent article on the myriad ways you can outsource your Money Handler tasks so you can make the transition to money management.
While you peruse the carnival, take some [...]

The following is a guest post by Charles Rotblut of Zacks Investment Research.  Charles raises some interesting discussion on trading in the commodities markets and offers his opinion on the potential longevity of the current financial crisis.
I’m surprised by the indiscriminate selling in commodities and commodity-related stocks.
Were there bubbles? Yes, but demand remains high and [...]

This is second of two posts covering my recent interview with nationally syndicated financial columnist and author Scott Burns Scott is the chief investment strategist for AssetBuilder where he advocates a low fee approach to investment management and has co-authored the new book “Spend Til the End” with economist Larry Kotlikoff.
Check out part one of my [...]

Not long ago I posted about the failure at IndyMac bank.  In that article I referred to both FDIC and NCUA insurance that protects depositors up to $100,000.  I’m doing OK with my investments, but I’m not sitting on cash that is greater than $100K, so FDIC/NCUA insurance easily covers my cash assets.
While that may [...]

Recently I was given the opportunity to review the new book “Spend Til the End” by nationally syndicated financial columnist and author Scott Burns.  In addition to being an accomplished writer, Scott is also the chief investment strategist for AssetBuilder where he advocates a low fee approach to investment management.   As part of my [...]