The Advanta Corporation has announced that effective on May 30, 2009, all accounts will effectively be closed.  This means that no further activity will be allowed on any existing accounts, whether they be purchases, balance transfers, or via convenience checks.  While no account will be allowed to incur new charges, none of the accounts are [...]

For those who are interested, and even those who aren’t, the Carnival of Financial Planning for March 21, 2009 is now up and live on the Skilled Investor’s blog.  I have to say thank you once again for including my post Read This Before You Trade Any More Stocks in the carnival! infant motrin
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For some reason, the idea popped into my head to look into how the consumer sentiment is figured. You know, those surveys done by the University of Michigan and The Conference Board which tell us what consumers feel about their situations and the economy, and which ultimately turns the markets one way or the other [...]

The other day I wrote a post called Do People Even Have A Clue When It Comes To Investing? in which I commented about an article I read on MSN Money Central.  The article, and my post dealt with the fact that people are panicking and taking every piece of news at face value rather than [...]

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Earlier today I decided that I had had enough of the added expense of paying for cable television.  This was far from a frugality choice or a consequence of the downturn in the economy.  I really do not use it on an everyday basis, and there are even some evenings during which the [...]