I am all for learning from new experiences. I seek out new things to get my hands dirty with all the time, but this weekend, I was able to experience one of those things that no one seeks out or ever wants to – bank closure. Late Friday night while I was thinking about investing [...]

Last week I read an article on the Times online that was titled, How to boost your spending power and this title really disappointed me. Although the Times is not necessarily a financial geared publication, it is a national news source and I feel this article is telling the public to do exactly the opposite [...]

Originally posted 2009-06-28 14:59:19. I do a bit of stock trading here and there. I started trading a few years ago, and I really shouldn’t say trading because I bought, and held, but I have never sold anything. The first stocks I purchased were for a company I was a part of. I have since [...]

I have mentioned my relationship with ING before. It is not a profound, lovey dovey relationship and I am not a huge fan of theirs. I do however like some of the things they do there but really I only created the account for one specific purpose, which has come and gone. On to the [...]

Well, it looks like my major long post about the CARS or Cash for Clunkers program was a waste of breath because the program has officially run out of budget…in 4 DAYS! When word got out that the program may be closed overnight, what media is dubbing a “pent-up demand” was released on late night [...]