Archive for July, 2009

Jul.09.2009

Quicken Online Trends

Quicken Online is a separate product from the desktop versions like Quicken Deluxe, but it does have some similarities. One of my favorites features of Quicken in general is it’s ability to automatically categorize your spending based on where you made a purchase.  Quicken Online learns from all the data its users upload, so the [...]

Jul.09.2009

Are your employee benefits in jeopardy?

Government deficits are sometimes called deferred taxation. At some point, you have to pay for them somehow usually though increased taxes. The question is not “if” but “when” the taxation will occur. It appears that the private company equivalent of deferred taxation occurs, in part, by simply underfunding pension plans and employee benefit obligations. For [...]

Jul.08.2009

The Total Money Makeover: Money Myths - The (Non)Secrets of the Rich

This is the third of twelve parts of a “book club” reading and discussion of Dave Ramsey’s The Total Money Makeover, where this book on debt reduction is teased apart and looked at in detail. This entry covers the fourth chapter, finishing on page 76. The next entry, covering the fourth chapter, will [...]

Jul.08.2009

The Simple Dollar Weekly Roundup: 1,100 Notes Edition

Over the last year, I’ve been jotting down individual notes and thoughts that I’m intending to include in my next book. Now that the time has come to start putting this together, I sat down and finally did a thorough accounting of all of the notes. I made them all electronic (using Evernote [...]