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Are there any safe investments?

Published Sunday, April 14, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This guest post is from William Cowie, who has contributed to Get Rich Slowly and other personal finance blogs. He also blogs about investing and offers a free Investing Basics course on Bite the Bullet Investing. Earlier this month our readers were asked, regarding your personal financial journey: “What is the next step?” The answer J.D. offered in his 2009 article was… investing. Why invest? […]

Ask the Readers: 4 options for the next step

Published Friday, April 12, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

Ken is sending his financial situation into the GRS ether to see what you have to say. Here’s a snapshot of his finances: I thoroughly enjoyed reading your article “What Next” and the “Ask the Readers: What is the Next Step?” because that is my situation. I have been struggling for the past year to figure out where to focus my attention. I am married with no children. […]

Why I plan on driving my car into the ground

Published Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This post is from staff writer Kristin Wong. Over the weekend, a friend and I were enjoying a couple of beers in my neighborhood. As we sat outside people watching, he drooled over every fancy car that drove by. “That’s a whatever-whatever,” he would tell me. “It costs $100,000.” I live in Los Angeles, where these symbols of affluence are common. “I can’t help it,” I told him. […]

Review: ‘All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan’

Published Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This post is by staff writer Honey Smith. There are many personal finance books out there, useful to people in all stages of personal finance. I have a lot to learn before reaching financial independence, and the editorial elves thought it would be useful if I shared some of what I learn with you. So for the foreseeable future, I will be reviewing one PF-related book per month. […]

I’m 30! Am I where I should be with my finances?

Published Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This post is from staff writer Kristin Wong. “I can’t believe I’m going to be 30!” I told my Dad at the beginning of the year. I said the same thing when I turned 20, so I knew he would reassure me that 30 actually wasn’t that old. “Nope, 30′s old,” he said. Getting older doesn’t bother me; I actually embrace it and all the experiences that come along with it. […]

Invest in this: How I pick stocks

Published Monday, April 8, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This post is from staff writer Sarah Gilbert. I’ve been doing what I call “investment banking” for a friend’s company (I say it that way because the work I do is almost definitely not what you probably think of when you hear the term), and I get this question almost every day: “So, I guess you know a lot about investing!” Well, I know more than perhaps most people about investing. […]

Your credit score and credit card rewards: 10 tips

Published Sunday, April 7, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This is the second post from Hilary Stockton, who is the founder of TravelSort, which helps savvy travelers earn millions of miles without flying, redeem them for first-class flights, and stay in luxury hotels at wholesale prices. Follow her on Twitter @TravelSort. […]

Ask the Readers: Do you save more or less than your parents?

Published Friday, April 5, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This post is from Ollie Geiger, a personal finance writer who contributes to MoneyRates.com. Whenever we visit my grandmother-in-law’s house, we always leave with paper towels. Lots of them. […]

Saving for college when time is on your side

Published Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This post is by staff writer Holly Johnson. According to the Federal Reserve, the average amount of student loan debt carried by a student graduating in 2012 reached a staggering $24,301. And that isn’t the only scary student loan statistic. Overall, student loan debt in the U.S. has reached a cumulative $902 billion dollars, and loan delinquencies are at an all-time high. […]

The stock market has recovered, but have you?

Published Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This is a post from staff writer Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. The financial media world is all abuzz with U.S. stocks — as measured by the Standard & Poor’s 500 — surpassing where they were in October of 2007, right before the Great Recession and a more-than-50 percent plunge. […]