Getting back to my Personal Finance Dictionary, I’ll be introducing a word that is very relevant to me.
Word of the day (WOD) is: underwater
Definition: Underwater is a financial term more commonly known as negative equity. Negative equity means that the value of a loan for a particular asset exceeds the value of the asset.
Common Use: [...]
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It’s Monday, so that means a new Carnival is up. This week’s PFC is hosted by Mighty Bargain Hunter. MBH has a great blog and has listed some good articles for the week. My article on why I use Mint.com is under the Budgeting section. Here are a few of my favorites from the carnival:
Jim [...]
Happy Friday everyone!
The latest Personal Finance News Carnival is up and running at Peak Personal Finance. My post about rising credit card deliquencies is listed this week. Take some time and read the PFN carnival. Here are a few of my favorites:
Dough Roller and 10 lies that keep you in debt.
Fine Tuned Finances talks about [...]
April 15th is Income Tax Day. Failure to postmark your taxes by today without filing an extension and you’ll be in big trouble. Unless of course you are Treasurer. Consider this your final warning to get your taxes paid – or refunded. Would you like to know more? The U.S. Treasury provides a fact sheet [...]
Got Carnival? Moneyning does and is hosting number 200. Why do I mention? Well, because I was mentioned of course. Where to Invest Cash is a popular topic these days, so check it out. After you read my article and comment, take a look at these great submissions:
Jim discusses ways to improve yourself, not your [...]
Today marks the anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday. Thomas would be a very ripe 266 years old. I respect a lot about this founding father of our great country, as both the principle drafter of our Constitution to his reign as our 3rd President. He truly was, and probably still is, one of the great [...]
On Thursday Wells Fargo announced early Q1 profits of $3 billion which had a nice ripple effect on financials and the market in general. One ETF in particular had a great day – FAS. FAS is a Financials ETF that tries to beat the Russell Financials 1000 by 300%. Here is the FAS list of top [...]
I pop into a personal finance forum every now and again to give my $.02 worth of advice and commentary. One of the posts was about Mint or one stop shop sites/software for personal finance tracking. Almost all the comments were bashing the use of them or claiming it was for the novice budgeter. Below [...]
News came in today about changes to Bank of America credit card policies. Starting in June, cardholders who carry balances month over month and have rates below 10% are going to see those interest rates increase. From the article:
A company spokeswoman declined to provide an exact number, saying the changes would affect less than 10% [...]