I was just reading through Zen Habits (one of my favorite bloggers) and came across his post on Why Living A Life of Gratitude Can Make You Happy. I always try to be grateful for my health, family, friends, etc. each day, but how can I forget you the readers? So, here a quick list [...]

The price of gold has recently broken out to new highs, and the shiny metal is once again in the spotlight. Trading over $700 it can be confusing as a new investor to think about investing in the precious metal. Do you buy coins, jewelry, what? The answer is simple, to invest in gold, just [...]

Every investor has their own process of finding potential buys for their portfolios. I used to scour through 100s of charts a week looking for potential stock picks. On the contrary, some independent investors will scan through 100s of balance sheets a week looking for trade ideas. But, which is a better place to start [...]

My buddy GolbGuru over at TheTaoOfMakingMoney.com hosted the #118 edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance this week and it was a big one. Over 100 entries came in, with Golb posting up 88 of them. As you readers know this week I hosted the 54th Festival of Stocks, and actually confirmed today that I [...]

After giving the SteamStreet Investment Community a Review back in June of this year, I was interested to see what the site would do over the summer in the improvements area. For those who don’t know the site, SteamStreet offers a place to setup and track multiple fake portfolios as you buy and sell stocks, [...]

Earlier today I posted on how big the federal reserve meeting today was going to be; would the market really benefit from a fed rate cut? Well, so far so good as the Feds cut rates by half a point, or .5% to 4.75% and the market has soared on the good news. Here are [...]

Today at 2:15 PM EDT Ben Bernanke will announce what the Federal Reserve will be doing regarding interest rates. As of now everyone on Wall Street expects either a quarter point or a half point cut. The big question is though how will the market react, and why does it matter to you?
Expected Rate Cut
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Everything is now running pretty smoothly with the new blog design, which was done by Nate Whitehill who also did JohnChow.com and more recently ShoeMoney.com. I originally was going to have Nate just redesign the header, but after seeing the initial work I couldn’t help it, I had to go with a whole new custom [...]