When I’m looking for a cheap flight, usually the first place I check is either Orbitz.com or Expedia.com and then depending on whether I am going to a city that Southwest.com goes to, I check that as well. I had a recent trip planned that involved a non-refundable European leg on a small carrier that […]

I’ve read a number of articles by the “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” author, Robert Kiyosaki, and am often amazed at the lack of insight I gain after reading the article….kind of like the lack of nutrition I feel after eating a bowl of Frosted Flakes.
In today’s Yahoo article by Kiyosaki Reading, Writing, and Resisting […]

Neteller.com has been the primary conduit for Americans transferring funds from their banks to foreign online poker sites ever since credit card companies and PayPal stopped allowing such transfers. That will no longer be the case.

Neteller’s Announcement
Due to recent US legislative changes and events, effective immediately, US members are no longer able to transfer funds […]

Tax time is approaching and it’s always a chore to calculate capital gains for my taxes. I was looking around the web to see if any of the free stock ticker sites had a way that I could just submit a bunch of ticker symbols and dates and generate a table of historical stock prices. […]

I just discovered that PayPal offers a very competitive money market rate. I discovered this in Tim Middleton’s article on MSN from 6/20/06 (rate information is 7 months old now but the article is still very informative) In this weird world, cash beats stocks. I immediately went to my PayPal account and found you have […]

It started a number of years ago. A few buddies and I would go to Vegas on the cheap and enjoy the first weekend of college basketball’s glorious tournament. We’d set up shop at the Stardust sportsbook with a wall of TVs showing the first 48 games over the course of 4 days. It was […]

Today’s USA Today has a good article on tax issues surrounding retirement….Retiring doesn’t mean retiring from taxes. It explains the wisdom to “stuff as much into a Roth IRA as you can”. So, if possible, it is wise to contribute the $4000 a year to a Roth ($5000 if you’re over 50). However, high […]

I’m one of those persons that gets bugged when I read something that sounds definitive from a purported authority that is incorrect or incomplete. Today, I came across such a glaring omission in the about.com article Eight Ways to Avoid the 10% Early Withdrawal Fee on Your IRA . Now, it doesn’t say “The Eight […]

Following up my previous post on putting brokerage account cash into the money market, I just got off the phone with ETrade and I am not happy. And surely, those of you in a similar situation should not be happy either. Here’s the crux of it….
If you have a retirement account such as a Roth-IRA […]

Poker is not really gambling. How can that be? you might be thinking. Some players win, some players lose, the game is played in casinos, life savings have been lost playing poker. That is all true, but in the sense that many of my buddies wives think of poker, it is not gambling. My friend […]