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
LinkedIn’s chart is already a bell curve
A scant 12 days ago, LinkedIn went public. Its shares opened at $80, peaked at $115 later that day, and currently sit around $88. An initial public offering is always cause to celebrate, particularly in this, the much-ballyhooed case of Facebook’s uptight older sibling who wears golf shirts on weekends and enjoys Steely Dan. (Part […]
Buying a vacation home on a teacher’s salary
As philistines and libertarians, we make it a point never to listen to NPR nor watch PBS (why would we, they don’t broadcast football.) Unless, of course, NPR runs a story on a college classmate of ours. Especially with such an auspicious introductory line: There are wealthy Canadians buying multimillion-dollar beachfront homes. And there are […]
“Your health is the most important thing.” Uh-huh.
A few weeks ago, the popular personal finance meta-blog Yakezie held a contest for students, asking them to define richness and answer related questions. Even though our studyin’ days are long in the past, we decided to write an essay anyway and modify it for you folks. If this doesn’t spur some comments, nothing G-rated […]
Renting is for mental patients.
3 bedrooms, 1 bath 19429 Albany Street, Detroit (like it was going to be in another city) $20. That is not a typo. But it’s been on the market for 3 months, so you should come in around $16. This country still doesn’t get it. Home prices have decreased to the point where it’s no […]