Investment

Our worst financial mistakes and what you can learn from them

"Learn from the mistakes of others, because you can’t live long enough to make them all yourself." (Anonymous)

I’ve asked my fellow bloggers here at Wise Bread to tell you about their worst financial mistakes (and have included mine). Hopefully, wherever you may be in your living-large journey, you can learn from us. After you've read our story, we want to hear yours! Tell us your worst financial mistake in the comments and be entered into a random drawing for a $25 Amazon Gift Certificate!

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Intimidated by Retirement Investing? Get Professional Help!

It might seem like something of a no-brainer to ask for professional investment advice, particularly about retirement. That said, there's still an astonishing number of people I know who don't. They either go it alone, wading through jargon that they don't understand and desperately trying to make numbers that don't mean anything to them mean something, or the guess and hope they get lucky, or they avoid the topic altogether.

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Get $25 FREE for opening a savings account with 5.05% interest. - UPDATED

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Share the love!

This Valentine's Day, share the love around the world!

Kiva.org allows anyone with at least $25 dollars to spare to provide a loan to an entrepreneur in the developing world. These entrepreneurs are pre-screened by organizations in the developing country, which means that the recipients of the loans are known to be hard-working, honest people who need (what seems to us) a little extra money to improve their business.

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Womanhood microscopic and other hot stock tips

One of my favorite things about getting spam is... wait. Oh, I don't have a favorite thing. Unless you count the creativity involved in coming up with new filters to block spam, there's really nothing about spam that I find positive. Spam is completely obnoxious. It costs business a lot of money to filter out, and it is sent out people by whose kneecaps deserve a little rendezvous with my uncle, Big Meatball Gino, if you know what I'm saying, and I think you do.

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U.S. personal savings rate close to Depression-era rates

Have personal financial bloggers taught us NOTHING?

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Behind the Times - I learn about Keep the Change

I tend to ignore most promotions that banks send my way. I use Bank of America for my primary checking account, and they often interrupt my online banking log-in to try to sell me on some kind of promotion, and it’s usually crap.

So it was with Keep the Change – I just assumed that it was another little gimmick that wasn’t worth a second glance, and I would sigh heavily whenever the advertisement prevented me from immediately seeing my account balance when I logged into my online checking account. It wasn’t until a friend told me that she was participating that I started to pay attention.

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158 Free Investment Classes From Morningstar: Earn Rewards While You Learn

Morningstar offers terrific online courses that cover everything you need to know, from basics to advanced investing techniques. These classes are completely free. You don't even need to register for a free account to access them.

The classes are organized like college courses. Beginners should start with the 100s while more advanced investors can skip around to topics that interest them. The classes cover five main categories:

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Explaining the climax scene of "Trading Places"

Eddie Murphy's Trading Places is one of my favorite movies of all time. However, I have always felt a twinge of guilt when I watched the movie with other people.

You see, here's my deep dark secret: I don't really understand what happened during the climatic scene at the commodities exchange! Lucky for me, Wikipedia has the answer:

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Saving High

Most of us got at least one letter from ING Direct five or six ago with a check for $25 to open an online savings account with them, the first of its kind. I think their interest rate back then was about 2%, which was quite a leap from the .03% regular banks were offering. Nowadays though, with the rise of competitors and consumer participation in these online banks, you can easily find an online savings account with an APY of 5%. 5%!! You won’t get rich on that, but that’s a nice Christmas gift or two these companies are offering to pay for!

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