Throwing around the idea of writing a personal finance book

Posted on February 19th, 2009 at 05:00pm  |  6 comments

I’ve mentioned the idea about writing a personal finance book to a couple people, but I thought I’d get some feedback from all of you. I’ve become a bit of a personal finance nut over the past year and it took me a while to figure out what was relevant to me as a 20-something [...]

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Tax Time 2008: Retirement Savings Contributions Credit and IRAs

Posted on January 6th, 2009 at 06:11pm  |  Add comment

Now that we’re in 2009, it’s not a bad idea to start thinking about 2008 taxes. I don’t expect anything to be drastically different this year, but there are a few things I’m going to be looking at this year.

Credit for Qualified Retirement Savings Contributions
Form 8880 – TurboTax filled this in for me last [...]

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Interesting post on Social Security

Posted on June 26th, 2008 at 05:00pm  |  Add comment

How Much Could You Have if Social Security Was YOUR Money?
AllFinancialMatters has an interesting post up about what kind of money you could accumulate if you were able to take the money coming out of your paycheck and invest it yourself. He’s using an optimistic 10%, but he also forgot to include the employer’s portion [...]

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Putting my money where my mouth is: opened a Roth IRA

Posted on April 11th, 2008 at 05:00pm  |  4 comments

I’ve been blabbing on about finances for a little bit now and up to this point I haven’t been very aggressive about saving for retirement. Saving for retirement is good and dandy, but right now is the most important time for us to put away money (if you are wondering why see this post on [...]

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