by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 18, 2011 | for Money
Since my internet-bubble day-trading venture of the late 90s, I haven't spent much time in the stock market. Sure, I have the typical mutual fund retirement accounts. But I'm not a gambler…by nature or value system. Trading without doing serious company research isn't...
by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 4, 2011 | for Money
Recently I took my son to an orthodontic appointment in a very nice office building. The architecture was beautiful, the landscaping plush, the furnishings stylish. Whether or not any particular business that rented space there was financially sound or reliable, the...
by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 3, 2011 | for Money
Dave Ramsey wants you to cut up your credit cards. He also wants you to pay off you smallest debt first, rather than the one with the highest interest rate. If you listen to his radio show regularly, you'll notice a theme. Ramsey goes straight to the heart. Rather...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 30, 2011 | for Money
Too many people think investing is only for the über wealthy and those with sophisticated strategies. But everyone should profit from the power of compounding interest and, conversely, avoid the debilitating effect of paying compounded interest. If you've always lived...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 28, 2011 | for Mind, for Money
Help With College My husband and I have a total of 14 years of college education. That's a lot of tuition and scads of (exorbitantly-priced) books and (tiny, white-walled) apartment rental and hot dogs and ramen soup. That's a long time to be poor. It's even longer...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 27, 2011 | for Money
In the mid-1990s, I was a day trader. By that I mean I used an online brokerage account to buy rolling stocks, covered calls, naked puts, and a few other elementary techniques with my new-fangled internet brokerage account. After a few months I had some fabulous...
