Pimp Your Finances

What sets “The Wealthy Barber” apart from other books is that it makes personal finance simple and approachable.  It’s a fictional tale, written from the point of Dave, a soon-to-be-father.  He is inspired to learn about money after realizing his wife is pregnant.
Confused about where to start, he approaches his father.  His dad sends him to [...]

My 401K is down 45% this year, but that doesn’t bother me (very much).  I try to take a long term point of view with my finances.  But I recently realized that even my decades long point of view is far too short sighted.
I’ve never taken the time to figure out exactly how much money [...]

In last week’s Market Share Battle, “Review of Free Online Money Management Tools“, we compared 3 free web-based money management tools: Mint, Wesabe, and Yodlee.  This week, we review 3 more web-based tools for managing your finances: Quicken Online, Geezeo, and Buxfer.
The services are all free, and consolidate information from a variety of sources to give users a [...]

This post marks the first in a new series called “Market Share Battles”.  Every so often, we’ll do a side-by-side comparison of some finance related products, websites, or services.

In this week’s Market Share Battle, we review free web-based money management tools including Mint, Wesabe, and Yodlee.  These products summarize financial data from multiple accounts, and offer helpful features designed [...]