Elusive Wealth

The Mint.com and On-Line Account Aggregator post has been a popular post. Many people are concerned about identify theft, and want to know how to protect themselves. We are going to address some of the ways to keep your on-line accounts safe here. The reality is that it is difficult to always keep track of [...]

Recently on Consumerism Commentary, Flexo posted about the upcoming discontinuation of Microsoft Money.  First and foremost, this was a great post and important information for consumers of either Money, Quicken, or one of the similar on-line options. Unfortunately on the desktop, Quicken will no longer have significant competition (unless you like the free alternative, GNUCash). [...]

Wall Street Journal recently had an article on how life insurance policies were being placed on employees by a number of companies in order to help fund executive pensions. I also mentioned this briefly in a post describing why we are moving away from Chase as our primary bank (Voting with Dollars: Banking). The article [...]

This is my second “Voting with Dollars” post. The first post covered Banking.  When it comes to money and specifically in a capitalist or moderately capitalist society, our actions speak volumes. For instance, we want better service when banking and higher interest rates from our banks, but the vast majority of people continue to use [...]

I was reading a blog article on Free from Broke (http://freefrombroke.com/2009/05/receipts-prevent-credit-card-fraud.html) that identifies the importance of watching your credit card statements closely. Credit cards can become a bit of a vicious cycle, not only from a debt perspective, but even from a tracking perspective. Just having a credit card makes it easier to spend, and [...]