Originally posted 11/20/08 If you are a business owner and are looking to add or upgrade a car to use for business driving, it might be best to buy one before year-end. There is a special bonus depreciation deduction available only for 2008 that will allow you to claim up to $10,960 in depreciation for [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Originally posted 11/18/08 How’s this for an start-up idea? You create a savings account with a particular goal in mind and have the account be available online for your friends and family to chip-in and help you reach your goals? That’s exactly the goal of SmartyPig. The new web service allows you to set up [...]
Originally posted on 11/16/08 Someone told me the other day that NBC’s Jim Cramer (who I’m not a big fan of) said on his show, “You haven’t made any money in ten years, so buy and hold must come into question“. Everyone has always been told to invest for “the long-term” and to buy and [...]
Originally posted 11/13/08 A new web-based service can help you determine how healthy your financial life currently is. Thrive is a service designed by Loudwater Labs that uses downloaded financial data to come up with a numerical rating for your financial health. Thrive’s financial health rating is based on various factors including how much you [...]
I’m on the go often for my work, which means I end up paying a lot of my bills online. I love the ease of being able to go to a website and pay my bill while on the road, and not having to worry about plowing through all those bills when I get home. [...]
Originally posted 11-10-08 With all the difficulties on Wall Street and the constant indications that we may be headed for a deep recession, many Americans are considering cashing in their stocks and investing in gold. Gold has long been considered the safest of investments in uncertain times and many investors have bought gold as a [...]
By now, everyone in America has heard about the bailout that the big three car companies have been begging for. There are people on both sides of the fence on this one, but the overwhelming majority of people in this country, at least according to CNN, feel that the government should let the car companies [...]

