Written By Paula Pant
Ready to rumble?
There’s a fight brewing. Two contenders have climbed into the ring.
Both are clawing for victory. Only one will survive.
In one corner: Crush Your Mortgage, and his team of anti-debt advocates.
In the other corner: Keep Your Mortgage, and his cheering crowd of leveraged investors.
Who will take home the […]
Written By Paula Pant
An Afford Anything reader recently emailed me about this dilemma:
He’s upside-down on his home. He owes more than the house is worth.
But he wants to take advantage of today’s low housing prices, which will let him move his daughter into the best school district in town. He can put […]
Written By Paula Pant
Conventional wisdom says that you should invest in the market in small bites.
This is called “dollar-cost averaging.”
Dollar-cost averaging is the philosophy of wading slowly into the market over time, rather than diving in.
If you have a large sum of money — through a bonus, commission, gift, sale of a house or car, etc. […]
Written By Paula Pant
Anyone with a pulse – your co-workers, your neighbor, your third-grade teacher – is fretting that stocks nosedived this week.
Actually, “nosedived” is an understatement. It plummeted. Plunged. Tumbled. Crashed. You get the picture.
From the Associated Press:
Gripped by fear of another recession, the financial markets suffered their worst day Thursday since […]
Written By Paula Pant
Yesterday I read three great posts all on the same topic: what would I do if I won a million dollars?
One blogger says she’d pay off debt, save for retirement, take a vacation and remodel a home. Another blogger would “stare in sheer disbelief at the balance in my bank account.” And a […]
