I started a Lending Club account last year and I’ve been really impressed by the company during my time there. For those new to Lending Club, LC falls under the category of social peer-to-peer lending. It can work one of 2 ways for the average customer. One, a person can apply for personal loans from [...]
Tag Archives: Investing
Savings? Check. But, Now What?
Today we have a guest post from Evan who blogs about the stock market and personal finance at stockinvesting101.net. Technology has made it fairly easy to save money these days. You can set it up to where you have money taken directly from your paycheck and put into retirement accounts or saving accounts. You should [...]
5 Mind Hacks to Make Yourself Learn to Invest
I want to learn how to play the piano, I want to learn more about different modes of wealth accumulation, I want to learn how to skateboard. We often want to learn a lot of things, but they are often never accomplished because we either forget about our desires or they fall under the weight [...]
How to Save for Retirement While Working Abroad
*Update 5/24/2010* A reader recently e-mailed me and told me about her troubles opening up an account with Vanguard since she was a foreigner working in Singpaore. It appears it is incredibly difficult for Americans who live abroad to open taxable accounts with brokerages and banks. I’ll be updating this topic this week with new [...]
How to Avoid My 3 Novice Investment Mistakes
I started learning about my money during the summer of 2008 and I made some rookie investing mistakes during the early stages. Luckily, these mistakes didn’t cost me thousands of dollars like some money mistakes, but they’re mistakes worth learning from so that you can avoid them in your money life. During that summer and [...]
Your Money Wants to Give You More Money: A Look at Compound Interest
Last week we explored the numbers behind credit card debt. This week we’re going to take a look at how compound interest works in your favor by giving you more money for free. With the ups and downs of the economy over the last twelve months, it’s difficult for anyone to know what to do [...]
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