Mercury Magazines offers free subscriptions if you fill out their professional profile. If you provide accurate information, they will present trade publications that are applicable to your field, which is partially how they fund these offers. I … [Read the rest]
T. Rowe Price has an article Evaluating Roth and Pretax Retirement Savings Options by Roger Young that covers the basics on the choice between a "Traditional" pretax or Roth IRA or 401k account: The primary factor to consider is whether your … [Read the rest]
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) has released its 2018 Letter to Shareholders. I highly recommend sitting down and reading the entire thing straight from the source. It's only 15 pages long and (as always) written in a straightforward and approachable … [Read the rest]
Over the weekend, I read the NYT Magazine article America's Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Miserable about the rich and unhappy, which included a man who earned $1.2 million a year in Manhattan and hated his job: “I feel like I’m … [Read the rest]
Andrews Federal Credit Union has a few share certificate specials that may be of interest. Thanks to reader Mark for the tip. 6-month CD at 3.25% APY (2/25-3/2 Only Military Saves Week Special) 84-month CD at 3.45% APY 8-month CD at 2.86% … [Read the rest]
Morgan Housel wrote a post called The Biggest Returns which really resonated with my outlook on investing and personal finance. The main idea was that you should consider the impact of your efforts in relation to the time and energy spent. The … [Read the rest]
Update: This deal is back for one day again - February 19th, 2019. The benefit of "old-school" desktop tax software is that it doesn't require your Social Security Number and financial details to be stored in the "cloud", a fancy word for a … [Read the rest]
Building a "CD ladder" means funding a combination of certificates of deposit (CDs) with different maturities so that you have always have a portion of your funds maturing soon (providing liquidity) but you also increase your interest rates (more … [Read the rest]
I recently joined the NASA Federal Credit Union to take advantage their current certificate rate specials (as mentioned in my monthly list of best interest rates). NASA FCU has had some good specials over the last year or so, and I finally decided … [Read the rest]
If you have any Amazon Echo device, you can start an Audible trial by simply saying "Alexa, start my Audible trial". This will start a 30-day free trial, but through February 8th, 2019 at 4pm PT, signing up in this voice manner will get your 4 free … [Read the rest]
If you have Amazon Prime, I noticed that the documentary film Generation Wealth is now included as of February 1st, 2019. Here's a short blurb and the trailer: Lauren Greenfield examines materialism, celebrity culture, and social status and … [Read the rest]
Flat $10 New Member Bonus is back. TopCashBack has a bunch of rotating new member bonuses, but they are often for something like a big package of flushable wipes or laundry detergent. From now until February 14th, 2019, they have brought back the … [Read the rest]
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