If you’ve been waiting for a time to sign up for an investment account at ShareBuilder, now is that time. If you have a friend refer you, you get a $25 bonus when you open your account and start investing, and your friend gets 5 automatic trading credits. Pretty good deal really.
If you’re not familiar [...]
If you’re looking to pickup a copy of QuickBooks Pro 2009 for your home business or your small business, today (December 22, 2008) is the day to do it. Intuit has announced that for one day only, you can get a free copy of the program at your local Staples.
The way it works is that [...]
e-Trade, where I have my emergency fund, just announced that as of the end of the day on 12/19/08 the rate on their savings account will be dropping from 3.30% to 3.01%.
I can’t say that I’m all that surprised, and I expect several other announcements like this one in the next few days. With the [...]
Ok, I’ll admit it, I made that word up. Well, at least as it would be a name instead of an action/habit. It occurred to me while watching an episode of Wife Swap on Friday evening. You’ve seen it, or a show like it, I’m sure. They take the wives from two families and then [...]
Yay! The yearly performance bonus that my company gives out is coming on Monday!
The bonus is based on a set of goals for the company. If the company reaches all of the goals, then we get 100% of the bonus. Each goal is set a little differently, so one might only count for 10% and [...]
It’s officially official. We’re in a recession. And it started almost a year ago. Way back in December of 2007 in fact. But how much of the recession is in current perception?
How would you or I know that we were in a recession? Well, most likely, we’d learn by being told. Of course, it’s possible [...]
Jim over at Blueprint for Fianancial Prosperity asked us all what we thought of salary transparency. I don’t know about you, but there’s always something intrigueing about my coworkers salaries. Are they making more than I am? Am I making more? How much do they take out for retirement? But alas, that is not for [...]
Did you know that you can scan a barcode at a store, run it through a program on your phone, and have it tell you whether the item is at a good price or not? There are apps available for both the Apple iPhone and the G1 that allow just that.
These apps allow consumers to [...]
The cyber monday edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance is live! Once again, Beating Broke is in the carnival. My article on What is Freedom Worth? is appearing.
Be sure to head over and take in all the great personal finance articles that are a part of the carnival. You’re sure to find a few [...]
