By Jim Sloan Here’s my annual Valentine’s Day dilemma: If I go with the traditional gifts – chocolates and roses or dinner at a fancy restaurant – will my wife think I’m unimaginative? She loves roses and fine chocolate, but won’t she be somewhat offended that I didn’t put more thought into it? And then [...]

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By MoneyBlueBook Contributor I have always thought of banks as the bad guys. They charge too much on my credit card balances. They pay too little interest on my savings. And they charge me fees for every little thing. In the last couple of years we even had to endure our tax dollars going to [...]

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This is a guest post from Marc Pearlman. When people ask me if they could be successful at day trading, my first response is, “Do you know what day trading is?” Most people don’t. You might think day trading is about finding the best online brokerage, grabbing a stack of financial reports, arming yourself with [...]

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by Barbara Marquand In the wake of the financial meltdown, top money expert Saly Glassman says investors need to take responsibility of their finances and get their investments back on track. Glassman, ranked the nation’s No. 1 woman financial advisor by Barron’s, is author of “It’s About More Than the Money: Investment Wisdom for Building [...]

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This is a guest post from Marc Pearlman. Back in the early to mid-1990s I made my living by sitting in front of computer monitor with green and red glowing pixels that flashed stock and commodity prices. I was an off-the-floor stock and commodity trader, and in my world, green and red meant everything. Green [...]

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Usually when I open my credit card statements, my eye goes right to the line that tells me how much I made during the past month in cash back and credit card rewards points. Recently, though, something else caught my eye when I opened my monthly statement: the brand-spanking-new statement format mandated by the Federal [...]

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