Yesterday I was working away when I got a call from my mother: my maternal grandmother lay dying in the ICU of the local hospital and if I hurried I could say my goodbyes. It was a lowsy accent on a lowsy week that included getting a nasty case of food poisoning.
So what does that [...]

There is an excellent post over at All Things Financial that answers the question of how much life insurance you need.
The post is great and easy to follow and has me re-thinking the amount I am currently insured for.
Check it Out!

I’m sure you all have read my post on The Ultimate Credit Card Repayment Program and my post on Ordering Debts
for Repayment, and then found yourself saying ‘That’s great Mike, but what I really need is a nice tool with fancy graphs that lets me enter in all my debts and have it automatically [...]

I don’t know about you, but I hear this so much it is becoming a cliche. You turn on the TV and someone is asking you to support a charity or village in Africa, talking about how it is ‘less the the cost of a cup of coffee a day’. Heck, according to Craigslist you [...]

Over at It’s Your Money, there is a great post responding to advice from Suze Orman regarding the use of credit cards by the young. Suze’s advice:
My credit card strategy is solely for expenses that you need to live on — and not expenses that finance your living the high life. The only YF&Bers who [...]

I an what you would call quasi-self-employed; I work for a foreign company under contract. As such I get a consistent wire transfer every month, I get vacation days, and I go to staff meetings. Because the company has no Canadian presence, I am not an employee in the traditional sense, and can be considered [...]

No matter what feel-good commercials want you to believe, you are (usually) just a number to your potential creditors.
The number in question is called your FICO score, and it controls your financial life in ways you cannot imagine.
From Wikipedia:
A credit score is a numerical index which represents an estimate of an individual’s financial creditworthiness. It [...]

Update: While the principles presented in this post are sound, the payoff order described it slightly flawed. Please read my followup post/mea culpa before applying the principles here.
Get out your pen and paper, because I am about to share with you the ULTIMATE CREDIT CARD REPAYMENT PROGRAM! That’s right, the ULTIMATE CREDIT CARD REPAYMENT PROGRAM!!

See, [...]

Not very sound investment advice, but it made me smirk:

If you had bought $1000.00 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have $16.50 of the original $1,000.00.
With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Coors Light (the beer, not [...]

Last weekend I found myself in an airport shop in Salt Lake City, halfway home from San Jose with a 2 hour flight ahead of me. I had learned from the previous leg of the trip that the plane I would be flying on featured so little room that using my laptop was out of [...]