I have a washington mutual credit card, with a modest credit line.  I admittedly ran into some credit trouble and slow payment times when at college, so I like to keep a bit of a balance on my card, hovering right around 30%.  I have savings with ING Direct, making a pretty decent interest rate.
I [...]

I wanted to write about one more thing, today.  What $700 Billion actually means.
In 2006, an estimated 135.5 million americans filed tax returns.  Of those, it’s estimated that 32% had zero or negative tax liability.  That leaves 90.8 million people filing tax returns with tax liabilities.
Now, I realize that different people pay a different amount [...]

So, it’s been a while since they’ve announced the bailout.  I’ve calmed down a bit, but still think it is somewhat of another “middle class gets screwed” situation.
You have an Harvard Business School alumn with a bank account of $700 billion able to write checks to anyone and everyone he sees fit.  “Hank” Paulson is [...]

Failure is a part of life.  We all are familiar with and understand this cliche way of looking at failure.  There is no possible way that a person can go through life expecting to succeed at everything.  There are those who got to where they are because they are lucky, and there are people who [...]

So I was reading my gmail the other day and got an email from a guy’s website that I had visited a while back, that teaches about personal finance.  I decided to sign up for his newsletter just to try it out.  His emails were quite ineffective at first, so I just deleted them usually [...]