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
Be a Free Rider
Several years ago, your humble, previously fit blogger was testing only one of his body’s limits – its circumference. Tired of being a corpulent pile, he stumbled across a 2-week free membership at the now-defunct World Gym and proceeded to pay for an annual membership once the free one expired. Months later, left town […]
Feudalism Is Dead
Flashback. One of our rare first-person anecdotes, but one general enough that you can apply it to your own situation. While studying in college (mathematics, not some useless liberal art), your humble blogger worked at the front desk at a boutique hotel in downtown Toronto. The midnight shift change approached, and in walked the night […]
Part 3 of Our Ongoing Saga About Risk, Which Is Fortunately A Trilogy
Here’s Part II. No, wait: Here’s Part I. Read those first, there’ll be an open-book quiz. We’re explaining what all these mutual fund risk measurements mean. Yes, you want to know how much your mutual fund has gained and might likely gain, but the professionals have collectively decided that you need to know not only […]
We Learn Nothing
Not that many years ago, real estate was regarded as a safe investment. Now it’s the butt of jokes. What happened? Fannie Mae (formerly the Federal National Mortgage Association) is one of the government-sponsored enterprises entrusted with making it easier for people to afford homes. Its sibling, Freddie Mac (né Federal Home Loan Mortgage […]
