Consumer Commentary is a popular site designed to keep consumers informed of current consumer affairs news and to advise consumers on financial opportunities. Recent articles discussed how to decrease credit card costs, how to live within your means, how to invest and choose brokers, and with links to some of the best consumer sites on the Web. The articles are brief and contain excellent advice and information.
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This is an excellent site about personal finance and investment. Current posts deal with electronic exchange traded funds (ETFs), maximizing savings rates, using online savings accounts, investing in treasury bills, buying a home vs. renting (yes, it is often a better investment decision to rent), credit cards, and many other matters concerning personal financial decisions. There are ample links to some of the best finance sites on the Internet. This is an excellent site to watch for up-to-date investment advice and news and we are happy to include it in our Best Links to Best Sites finance list.
Get Rich Slowly is an ongoing advice column about how to manage your financial affairs in a reasonable way. You will not find an get rich schemes on this site. Just very good information about how to save, where to save, and how to limit spending. While there is good advice on this site on how to get out of debt, we believe the best way to manage debt, is to never get into debt (outside of a mortgage). Be reasonable about what you want from life and life will be reasonable to you. We here, at Best List to the Best Sites, concur, that the slow and sure way is most often the best way to ensure financial security. Be smart about how you spend money and remember to save more than you spend.
Are you young and broke (we hope not)? Looking for ways to improve your financial condition? Young and Broke is all about a young woman who is just trying to get by and passes on tips on how to survive in a world that is becoming increasingly expensive to live in. Read this daily blog for new ideas, and some good links to some of the best finance sites on the web. But I’ll offer my young readers a suggestion that has never failed: “Always spend less than you earn”. It is a surefire way to make yourself financially secure in life.
Tradermike.net is designed for the technical stock market trader, but we think it is useful for anyone who is either trading or investing in the stock market or commodities. It is difficult for the average investor to know what key events may be affecting the markets. Right now, defaults on subprime loans is causing some gloom among companies and investors who have a money stake in these really poorly conceived instruments, that, by the way, were encouraged by the silly “easy money” policies of the Republican government, including the Feds. If you give money easily to gamblers, they will use it – and more (what is euphemistically called leveraging on Wall Street, in gambling houses it is called doubling up). So now the question is, how deep in doo-doo is the financial systems that are so highly leveraged (gambled more money than they had), and who is going to pay the piper. The banks are trying to take back their bets, but the subprime vendors are going bankrupt (isn’t that a nice way to get out of paying up on a bet). Well, TraderMike will help keep you up-to-date on the shenanigans of Wall Street (they call this investing?), and we believe all investors should do what they can to at least try to keep up with the changing rules of the game. First the Internet Bubble, then the Housing Bubble, .. what next? The big guys keep making money will the little guy gets pinched. Stay tuned.
