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
Why Car Salesmen Hate Dealing With Women
It has nothing to do with sexism. Nor does it have anything to do with thinking, rightly or wrongly, that women are bad at negotiating. Besides, if that were true, car salesmen would prefer to deal with women. Your humble (male) blogger recently ordered food at the Mexican greasy spoon across the street: Clerk: […]
What that dollar in your pocket isn’t worth
First, read this. Can’t be bothered? To summarize, a year ago we questioned the convention of quoting the price of gold in terms of dollars, instead of the other way around. After all, gold is more stable and less subject to manipulation than money that the Federal Reserve creates out of ether. Back then, the […]
June’s (Financial) Retard of the Month
This week, a civic winner. America’s foulest major city, the abscess on the shores of Lake St. Clair. Congratulations, Detroit: you are our Retard of the Month. All 701,475 of you, take a bow. That’s part of it right there. Detroit has lost more than 60% of its population off its 1950 peak, and […]
iTunes is a Ripoff
For our younger devotees – and everyone knows there’s nothing a 17-year-old would rather do than read about personal finance – it might be hard to comprehend how primitive music retailing was just a few years ago. You had to physically walk into a store, then pay the equivalent of about $20 in 2013 […]