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
Don’t buy obsolescence
“Folks, come on in. Bring your groceries. Sit in these plush chairs. For hours on end if you want. Sample the merchandise, but you don’t have to buy anything.” Now that’s a business plan! In the past we’ve looked at stocks whose prices tailspin for no structurally valid reasons. Examples: Toyota, which sank 22% in […]
March’s (Financial) Retard of the Month
Trent Hamm, stop being the Antichrist. Readers, think about what you love most in the world. Sex? Beer? Malasadas? However strong you think your affection for it is, whatever it may be, your love will never compare to the animalistic lust that Trent Hamm has for adverbs. Every damn one of those adverbs […]
3 out of every 4 people reading this are idiots.
That means you, who’s looking forward to getting a tax refund on April 15. It might not be the dumbest thing you can do with your money, but it’s in the top 8. Congratulations, getting that check means you let the government (definitely federal, probably state) enjoy your money all year long, as your employer dutifully […]
Read this and watch your taxes fall
Taxes are too high, but not necessarily as high as you think. This post isn’t going to argue about the merits or weaknesses of our tax system, nor about the obscene amounts of our money that our elected officials spend on our behalf – spending that’s inseparably tied to the taxation and that shows zero […]
