The USPS Informed Delivery service also works for a PO Box, only slightly different than for a residential address.
Encrypted USB Flash Drive For Financial and Legal Documents
How to use an inexpensive encrypted USB flash drive for your sensitive documents.
FidSafe: Online Safe Deposit Box From Fidelity
Fidelity’s new service FidSafe offers secure online storage for your financial and legal documents.
Mint and Personal Capital vs Quicken and Microsoft Money
Mint and Personal Capital operate on a different philosophy than Quicken and Microsoft Money. Choose one that matches how you’d like to use the tool.
Pound Foolish: Money Gurus Will Not Solve All Your Money Problems
Every year many books on money and finance are published. Only few gain publicity. When you hear or see an author interviewed on radio and TV or read reviews in national newspapers or magazines, think about the terrific job done by the author’s and the publisher’s PR agents. The book Pound Foolish by freelance writer […]
A Social Security Owner’s Manual by Jim Blankenship
Jim Blankenship is a Certified Financial Planner, Enrolled Agent, and the owner of Blankenship Financial Planning in Illinois. I have been following his blog Getting Your Financial Ducks In A Row for some time. I also referred to his online publication The IRA Owner’s Manual when I had a question about inherited IRAs. Jim knows […]
Book Review: The Power of Passive Investing by Rick Ferri
Rick Ferri is the founder of a Michigan investment advisory firm Portfolio Solutions. I came to know Rick from his postings on the Bogleheads Investment Forum. When the PR person for the publisher contacted me about Rick’s new book The Power of Passive Investing, I eagerly asked for a review copy. Passive investing means investing […]
Book Review: Can I Retire? by Mike Piper
I forget how I got to know Mike Piper. Maybe from his comments on or links to my blog? Maybe from his posts to the Bogleheads investment forum? Mike is the blogger at Oblivious Investor. He writes a "100 pages or less" series of books that aim to make things easy to understand. His latest […]
Book Review: The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need for the Right Financial Plan by Larry Swedroe
Larry Swedroe is a well known financial advisor. He wrote at least eight books on investing. I read and liked most of his previous books. The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need for the Right Financial Plan is a new book published in August 2010. In this book, Swedroe and his co-authors try to tie together […]
Book Review: Comeback America
Are you concerned about the deficit and the national debt? I am. Very concerned. One of my biggest fears is that despite my hard work and diligent savings, my accumulated savings will be decimated by inflation and currency devaluation because of high deficit and national debt. With interest, I read Comeback America by David Walker. […]
FT vs WSJ: Which is Better?
My Wall Street Journal subscription expired in July, but they are still sending me the paper. Maybe they wish I would renew, but I already started a subscription to Financial Times. Having both papers at the same time gives me an opportunity to put them side by side for a comparison. Both Financial Times (FT) […]
Book Review: No One Would Listen
Being a financial blogger, I often receive requests for reviewing books. I usually ignore them but when I was offered No One Would Listen by Harry Markopolos, I took the offer because I’m fascinated by the story. Harry Markopolos is the guy who sounded the alarm on Bernie Madoff’s giant Ponzi scheme. He submitted detailed […]