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
The Lats Hurrah
(UPDATED, June 9: Correction made, thanks to an observant reader. We confused Latvia with Lithuania in one instance.) This week Latvia became the 18th country to join the Eurozone. It’s easy to mistakenly equate “Europe”, or even “Western Europe”, with “nations that use the euro”, but there are some glaring omissions: United Kingdom […]
Financial Retard of the Month, Assuming She Exists
If you’ve got $10 to donate, and had to give it to an individual rather than a formal charity with a fundraising department and a celebrity spokesperson, whom would you choose? A 7-year-old pediatric AIDS victim? The disfigured victim of a hit-and-run accident? Kelli Space, an able-bodied, perfectly healthy, 20-something college educated woman who rang […]
My bank! My precious bank!
What do I do if my bank fails? Relax. You’re not going to lose your life’s savings. Worst case, you’ll only have a quarter-million dollars left in each of your accounts. Thanks to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which guarantees you that much when it shuts down a bank. Notwithstanding the debate of whether it’s […]
How To Get Broke In Just A Few Easy Steps
You don’t have to be a sports fan to get or appreciate this. Per a Carnival of Wealth submitter’s recommendation, we checked out the ESPN documentary Broke the other day. It’s about athletes who at one point pulled 7-digit salaries, and ended up losing it all (and then some.) The documentary was a delightful […]
