We started Control Your Cash for one reason:
Your relationship with money is almost certainly dysfunctional. You don’t know what you don’t know, probably because nobody ever taught you.
Fortunately, you can stop letting money act on you – and actually take charge of it.
We don't give patently obvious advice here, stuff like "spend less than you make." (Wow, what insight.)
Instead, we show you what pitfalls to avoid and what quiet opportunities to take advantage of. Spend a little time here and you’ll no longer have to pretend that you know what the S&P 500 is. Or whether a Roth IRA is better than a traditional one. You’ll understand the why, and the how.
And you’ll find that personal finance is a lot less complicated than you thought.
The Latest
The Best Alternatives to a 401(k)
The well of creativity is barely a trickle at this point. Our muse went to St. Tropez with someone younger and better-looking, and that was months ago. Is she ever coming back? We’ll leave a light on. Spend more time at the gym. Buy more flattering clothes. Vacuum the house once in a while. Damn, […]
Carnival of Wealth, Back from the Dead Edition
If you missed last week’s Carnival of Wealth…well, you weren’t the only one. First, the excuse: we use a couple of hosting services to organize the carnival submissions for us. One of those services has been down for a while now, the other one takes submissions and watches them disappear into the ether. So […]
An Investopedia Repost About Lockouts and Such
From our Investopedia files, a piece about sports labor strife. Which doesn’t pertain to your life unless you’re an athlete, an agent, or maybe a team owner, but it’s an entertaining read. Trust us, we wrote it. Here’s an enticing sample: By 2011, pro football had metamorphosed from popular sport into national obsession. That spring, […]
Carnival of Wealth, Andrew Pohl Edition
That’s the problem with being selective. You accept only the good submissions, or the stupendously awful ones, and pretty soon the number of submitters dwindles to a trickle. Presenting another edition of the Carnival of Wealth, the only personal finance blog carnival worth a damn. Even with only 2 submitters. One of whom is […]
From the Archives
Whole Life Insurance, a/k/a Actuarial Rustproofing
Life insurance is supposed to keep your survivors’ financial lives operating without interruption should you buy the farm. If you’re rational enough to acknowledge that you might die and leave dependents, but not so rational as to compare the likelihood of you leaving your family destitute with the price of insurance, then perhaps a […]
May’s (Financial) Retard of the Month
Apparently we take requests now. A fellow blogger, who seems judicious and thus almost certainly doesn’t want us to use her name, suggested today’s Retard of the Month honoree. Her recommendation has plenty of the characteristics you’d want in a RotM: A first-person story about all the money he’s made? Of course not. How about […]
The Multimillionaires Who Need Your Money
This post ran in slightly different form (well, vastly different form) on Investopedia a few months ago. If you can’t get enough of us here, we’re all over Investopedia. The Miami (né Florida) Marlins moved into a new ballpark this week. Total cost to taxpayers: obscene. But it’s justified, because a business location that […]
37 Ways Credit Card Issuers Are Screwing You Over
Ha! Title bait! The experts say to use provocative headlines, preferably ones that confirm people’s preconceived notions. And people do love to whine about credit card issuers. The experts also say that “list” titles draw lots of attention. There aren’t 37 of anything in this post, but there are plenty of examples of how […]
