Sudden Job Loss
Losing your job is never fun. But it could be disasterous if you don’t see the loss coming or are unprepared financially. Tribune writer Carolyn Bigda listed four solid points of advice in her weekly column “Getting Started” that everyone should read. I’ve pasted her article below. Before pasting her article, I’d like to reemphasize [...]
Property Envy
Here’s a helpful article by Ellen James Martin with United Press Syndicate about staying sane when all your friends are buying homes. From personal experience, it’s tough knowing friends are buying property and taking advantage of historically low borrowing rates. (Especially when you’re stuck living in a crappy apartment with a dishwasher that only opens [...]
During this past week, I read two articles about spending that caused me some concern. I’m on a humble little mission to educate American women about finances, as you know, but the cause of “one penny at a time” is not the glamourous slogan of headline news. Imagine my discontent and utter sadness (ok, I’m [...]
Words of Wisdom
Great words of wisdom from an article in the Chicago Tribune by Humberto Cruz. I was particularly tickled by the last paragraph – I’m thinking about tracking ol’ Gary down to enlist his help… “The following e-mail is from Gary Hair, a financial adviser in Eugene, Ore., responding to a column about the ongoing debate [...]
Shades of Doubt
I started writing this article on the subject of money markets. I wrote two paragraphs before stopping cold. Planning to invest in a money market when my savings account hits a key milesone, I intended to write a joyus summary article to define money markets, outline my reasons for choosing this option and provide sample [...]
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