Rate Cuts
Emergency Funds are NOT Investments
At this time last year; we were all enjoying money market returns nearing 5 percent. Many were not only parking their money in these liquid funds for emergency cash, but using them as active investments. Unfortunately, one of the downsides of the Federal Reserve’s recent interest rate cuts is the declining returns [...]
Should We Worry About Inflation?
Today, the Washington Post reported that, “prices have risen 9.2 percent since 2006 for the groceries, gasoline, health care and other basics that a middle-income American family has little choice but to consume.” Usually I would be happy with a 9.2% raise, but apparently, Americans need this just to keep pace with purchasing everyday essentials. [...]
Words From The Wise…
Quotes have the potential to inspire people to make changes in their lives for the better or to keep them on their chosen path. As passionate as we are about our writing, we know others in the world simply say things better. Having said that, we have picked five financial related quotes that we hope [...]
What Would You Do With $1 Million Dollars?
This topic is not really in line with saving day to day or financial managment, but since its Friday, we thought we would have a little bit of fun. Shown below, is a couple that won $270 million dollars and looked as though it was an inconvenience. Very entertaining to watch to say the least. [...]
Monthly Round Up for February
Every month we will gather up some of our most well received posts and quotes, in case they were missed as well as to give some financial highlights to consider for the month ahead. We will also discuss some of our sites traffic activity.
We had quite a successful first month! We had well over 3,550 visitors this [...]
