It’s not a strict requirement to be in your skivvies while browsing USASpending.gov but it provided a catchy headline, no?
Have you ever wanted to know what the government is spending your money on? Ever wondered where federal contracting dollars and grant awards go? Wonder no more.
USASpending.gov was created to comply with the Federal [...]

Before I say anything else, you may just want to take a look at the free report to see it for yourself. Below is my take on the teaching sells web site and explains why I chose to join.
The background
If you’re anything like me, you’re interested in learning how to make money online. [...]

Yale economist Robert Shiller’s chart of historical housing prices is shocking (and frustrating if you’re buying a house).
Now you can take it a step further and take a virtual ride on the roller coaster of housing prices (based on Shiller’s graph).

How many times have you heard that a home is the best investment you could ever make?
David Crook of the Wall St. Journal disagrees, and wrote an article explaining why your home is not the investment you think it is.
It rejects the common premise that a home is a good investment and he has compelling [...]

One moment Dave DeSmidt had $179,000 in his 401(k) retirement account, the next he had nothing.
In the comments on the article, there is some skepticism that it would have been so easy to transfer such a large amount without verification, but the fact remains that somehow, someone managed to get his money. There’s a [...]

I want to teach my children about money and finances at an early age, so a post at Dumb Little Man about some comic books to teach kids about money piqued my interest.
I ordered them for free from the Federal Reserve, and they showed up a few weeks later. I read through them and [...]

JD at Get Rich Slowly has decided to switch to basic cable after crunching the numbers on his monthly bill to see how much it cost them to watch TV. He’s not the only one. John Zeratsky bid adieu to Comcast last September and Eric Olson got rid of cable last August. [...]

This is truly a heartwarming story.
A laptop stopped working a mere 2 weeks after the 1-year warranty had expired. Compaq wasn’t willing to budge on the 1 year mark, but since the laptop had been purchased on an American Express card, which has extended warranty protection, they would take care of it. The customer [...]

I have a lot of different financial sites to keep track. I thought there must be a way to enter all the stocks, mutual funds, accounts and their interest rates as well as regular deposits or purchases I make so I could track the growth of my portfolio in one place. I searched [...]

Trent at the simple dollar has done an overview of 5 authors in the financial management area. I find the subject quite interesting and having read several personal finance books myself, I’m inclined to agree in general with his opinions on them.
He did the reviews from best to worst (in his mind) and I [...]

I ran across True Majority, a site where Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerries explains the United States budget with Oreos (here’s the transcript).
At first I was outraged and in complete agreement that we should reallocate the national budget. But there are always two sides to the story, and I wondered what the other [...]

Forbes released their latest list of the 400 richest Americans. I find the sources fascinating. They range from tech companies like Microsoft, Google, Dell and Oracle to Walmart and Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Then, for something completely different, there’s candy and chewing gum. There’s an awful lot of hedge funds too. I’m [...]

Here’s a way to see how energy efficient your house is. It’s called the Home Analyzer and can get pretty detailed if you keep drilling down and entering information about your appliances. You can also enter your recent gas and electric bills and it will tell you how they compare with other people [...]