Archive for the 'Personal Finance' Category

It just goes to show that UK taxes are as convoluted as the US tax system.  They’re incomprehensible in either dialect.
The advice to “save money for a rainy day” seems to have passed across the Atlantic in an intelligible form.
From Times Online UK
“The secret to self employment is keeping the tax man at bay and […]

Yes, there is a key to boosting your retirement savings by as much as $1.2 million dollars according to ChristianBusiness.net’s Steve Kroening… yet it has nothing to do with the stocks picked.
In the study the key difference that improved long term yield was the relative management costs of the mutual funds. Low cost funds produced […]

Maybe this wasn’t news to you, but it was news to me.
Amazon.com is selling non-perishable grocery items.
Many home based business people, work at home moms, are very budget conscious.
If you’re a bookaholic anyway and have Amazon Prime, the free shipping may make this a viable option for your non pershable purchases…
Unless you’re saving gas money […]

Could you make a living helping people with lousy credit get homes?
Mark Hopkinson did. He got tired of cruching numbers as a bank analyst and wanted to go into real estate.
He chose the niche of helping people with bad credit because his mother in law had lost a home to a mortgage foreclosure.
He looks for “fixer uppers” and […]

Here’s a fast way to a low interest rate credit card…
I posted it on my brokeanonymous blog but it applies to many work at home businesses.
It’s about how I turned 2 high interest credit cards (19% on one, 25% on the other) to one low interest rate credit card…
1. With one phone call
2. With no forms […]