5 Most Interesting Personal Finance Posts Of The Week – 3.7.08
In no particular order:
How To: Become a Billionaire by Llama Money
Sweet! I only have to save $308, 700 per month to become a billionaire by age 60. This should be easy for me since I’m really a highly-paid NBA star who just blogs on the side for fun. Also, Llama Money is the best name for a financial blog EVER. I wish I’d thought of it.
Survey: Americans Are Financially Illiterate by Consumerism Commentary
Shocker: Americans suck with money. And credit card companies are more than willing to take advantage of that fact. Here are some ways they will try to screw you.
The Stock Market Is Way Down This Year… by The Simple Dollar
Stocks are the only thing people don’t like to buy when they’re on sale.
Another Reason to Be Wary of Gift Cards by Get Rich Slowly
If a company goes bankrupt, your gift cards are effectively worthless since they are treated as a small loan to the company and not as cash. I was under the impression employees and then customers always got first dibs in bankruptcy, but apparently you aren’t technically a customer if you buy a gift card. Weird. Good to know.
March Madness, Round 1, Posts 57-64 by Free Money Finance
I would just like to think FMF for putting on the March Madness contest. There were a ton of great articles to read and I got a lot of great exposure for this blog.
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Well I find it hard to argue with this – “Llama Money is the best name for a financial blog EVER.” It just came to me in a dream one day
Thanks for the mention, BTW.