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How is a Roth 401(k) Match Taxed?
2007-11-21 13:29:00 I’ve had a Roth 401(k) since I became eligible with my company in the middle of 2006. One reason I see people choosing not to use the Roth option over the ‘regular’ or ‘Traditional’ 401(k) is partly just sheer confusion. Today we’ll address the tax situation with matching funds and with the funds you contribute to ... More About: Retirement , Taxes , Investment , Match
35 Things About Money You Don?t Know
2007-11-19 14:02:00 Well, if you count each Interview Question once…. China’s Economy is really 40% Smaller than we thought - Financial Times and the Economist. There are apparently 300 million people in China living under the dollar a day poverty line. That’s how many people the US has in its entirety… Scientists Prove that Low-Self Esteem and Materialism are ... More About: Business , Money , Work , Things
Updown Stock Picking Championship Week 3
2007-11-18 19:23:00 Updated Stock Picking for the Grumpstump Updown Stock Picking Championship Week 3: As you can see, I’m still woefully behind. I made a strong run earlier in the week until the bottom fell out of PCU and IMB as well as several of my other holdings. I’m hanging tight though, I still feel like my holdings ... More About: Investment
The Best Facebook Group Ever - Free Dollar Friday
2007-11-16 13:26:00 Ok, I haven’t done a Free Dollar Friday in a few weeks, so here’s an easy one. Which Facebook Group is the best ever? Add your favorite Facebook Group to the Best Facebook Group Ever and post a comment here. I’ll add $1 to the Kiva Donation Pool in your name. The first 10 entries will have ... More About: Freebies
The Top Entrepreneurs under 25
2007-11-15 13:48:00 Businessweek has a really cool slideshow up on the top 10 entrepreneurs under 25. No, I’m not on the list unfortunately… However, I though it was very interesting how almost all of them use the web as a tool but are really based on traditional business models that have worked in the past. Here’s how I see ... More About: Entrepreneurs , Young Money , Rene
Is E-Trade Bankrupt?
2007-11-13 14:08:00 Yesterday a lot of the Personal Finance bloggers covered yesterday’s implosion of E-Trade ’s share price and what it could mean. Jonathan at My Money Blog discusses what SIPC Insurance means and how it can effect your brokerage account. If you have money at E-Trade don’t worry about them going bankrupt unless you have some commodity or ... More About: Investment , Bankrupt
How Mortgage Interest Works
2007-11-12 13:57:00 My Roomate just closed on his house this week (Congrats!) and he was asking me some good real estate questions leading up to the closing. I thought I’d spend a little time on one of those today. How is Mortage Interest Calculated? When you have a fixed rate loan - When you close on the loan and ... More About: Personal Finance , Real Estate , Home , Mortgage , Works
25% Off - Barnes & Noble Promo Code
2007-11-12 13:16:00 I got another Barnes and Noble Promo tional Code . 25% off of any one item. Expires November 18. Free to the first person to leave me a comment letting me know they want it. -JD Barnes and Noble, Freebies , promotion code
UpDown Stock Picking Championship Week 2
2007-11-11 21:12:00 Well, we all had a pretty rough week (including the market as a whole) The S&P is down 6.18% for the month so far. Considering that November is historically a strong month in the stock market, this hurts even more. The year’s progress has fallen to a loss of 3.1% because of it. Volatility is also ... More About: Championship , Investment , Stock , Week , Picking
China Attacks US with Charity and Shiny Glass Beads
2007-11-09 13:57:00 This week, the Chinese announced they were planning on diversifying their $1.3 trillion dollars into other currencies. Everyone began bemoaning doom and gloom, but I seem to remember a few years ago that everyone was concerned with the amount of US Dollars China had. In addition, China has kept their currency intentionally low against the ... More About: Economy , Charity , Glass , Attacks
Are Entrepreneurial Colleges worth it?
2007-11-08 13:56:00 As I scrolled through my morning dose of Digg Business , I noticed that there are a lot of articles on entrepreneurship. Specifically I was scrolling and saw this article first: 15 Successful Entrepreneurs who didn’t need college Followed 2 diggs down by: The Top 50 Entrepreneurial Colleges Huh? So the richest entrepreneurs in history didn’t go to/ finish college… but ... More About: News , Worth , Rene
Squidoo made me $300 this month
2007-11-08 13:41:00 Yesterday was Squidoo Payday. Full details are posted on Captain Squid but here’s the breakdown for what I will be paid this month: Sept. Squidoo money earned (paid out yesterday Nov, 7) : $120 Oct. Affiliate Commissions (will be paid around the 20th): $160 All in all, Squidoo is actually starting to produce some alternative income for the ... More About: Made , Month , Mont
Up and coming Alternative Income Streams
2007-11-07 14:26:00 I haven’t talked a lot about it lately, but I’ve been working on bringing up some other income streams and closing down some older ones so here’s a quick update: Old Income Streams Antique Store - Our lease is up at the end of the month and we are choosing not to renew it. While fun, it ... More About: Alternative , Ebay , Dividends , Squidoo
Personal Finance Mind Candy 11-6-07
2007-11-06 14:01:00 Sometimes reading a lot of text is boring. After my large rant on garage sale extortion yesterday, I’ve decided to cut everyone a little slack today with some mind candy. golbguru from Money, Matter, and more Musings has an illustrated cash flow guide for dummies. This post takes about 90 seconds to read but is the ... More About: Personal , Personal Finance , Finance , Tips and Tricks , Mind
Advertise your Garage Sale - $500/sign
2007-11-05 14:06:00 image from ChrisWondra.com My monthly Home owner’s Association newsletter usually has little announcements about plays and boy scout gatherings, and cool new stuff my utility district has built that I can use for free etc. etc. This month’s newsletter has a bit of a twist: “As of October 1st, it is now an offense punishable by $500 and up ... More About: News , Garage , Real Estate , Tips and Tricks
Stock Picking Championship - Week 1 Update
2007-11-04 20:26:00 I’m going to provide weekly updates on our Fantasy Stock Pickers over here at the Grumpstump. After discussing the competition with Kinney, I’ve decided to make a few small changes to the competition. I am not trying to make this a trading competition, but instead I want it to evolve into an Investing Competition. Because of this, ... More About: Championship , Investment , Update , Week
Short Interest Ratio : Investing 101
2007-11-01 13:04:00 As is was researching my contrarian view on IMB a little further yesterday, I learned something new about shorting stocks. As many of you probably know, when someone shorts a stock they sell it today and promise to buy it back at a later date. If the stock drops in value, they earn a profit. If ... More About: Investment , Investing , Interest , Short , Eres
IMB Bank : Contrarian Heaven
2007-10-31 13:11:00 I’ve been following IMB (IndyMac Bank ) pretty closely the last couple of months. I own it both in my personal portfolio as well as in my UpDown account. I’ve continued to buy it as the price has plummetted to new lows over the past few weeks. Now, the question is this: Does buying IMB make me ... More About: Investment , Heaven
The Updown adds Limit Orders
2007-10-30 12:25:00 I received an e-mail today from the UpDown announcing they have added limit orders and stop loss orders. Here is a brief refresher on limit and stop loss orders for everyone because I know I needed one. Limit Orders : You place an order that says ‘Buy 1,000 shares of Yahoo for $21′ and you set a time ... More About: Investment
Zecco Review: 3 and 4 Legged Options Available
2007-10-29 12:29:00 I just received an e-mail from Zecco and they have apparently released the ability to trade 3 and 4 legged Options . I have written before that I haven’t learned a lot about options and it is doubly true of options that sound like they have appendages. For all you option traders out there, It may be worth ... More About: Review
Mint Money Adds Budgeting Tools
2007-10-26 14:00:00 As promised by Jason, Mint released it’s new budgeting tools yesterday morning. Here’s a Sneak Peek of what it looks like: In your Main Dashboard there is a button that says : Add Budget + and is orange. If you click it, this screen pops up. From Here you can select any of your general or specific ... More About: Tools , Reviews , Personal Finance , Money
Last Chance to Join the Stock Picking Championship
2007-10-26 13:26:00 We’re coming up on the end of the month, and that means time to sign up for the Grumpstump Stock Picking Championship is winding down. Quick Recap: Sign up for The UpDown Fantasy Stock Trading Account (Free). Make my account your friend (Loyalis). The Top Contestants will win some fabulous prizes at the end of the month. As it stands ... More About: Freebies , Chance , Join
Hard Ways to Get Rich Slowly
2007-10-25 13:50:00 I recently got one of those mailers that are basically a get rich quick booklet. This one was probably 50 pages or so, by a gentleman named Russ Dalbey, and was very insistent that I could get into the ‘cash flow note’ business. From what I could pick out of the sales pitch, it looks ... More About: Rich , Real Estate , Investment , Hard
Is Working Hard Really Worth it?
2007-10-24 14:28:00 Yesterday was a long day. There have been a lot of those lately. Not long days in the sense ‘Oh Man this is so awful, when can I leave…‘ but long days in the sense of ‘Wow I’ve already been at work for 12 hours… what happened to lunch?’ I’m a salaried employee. That means my ... More About: Business , Personal Finance , Money , Work , Productivity
New on the Grumpstump: Recent Readings
2007-10-23 14:03:00 I’ve added my Google Reader favorites in a widget at the bottom of the site. As I breeze through my RSS feeds everyday, I always notice a few sites that have a great post that day but I have no way to comment on all of them. I think this is a much cleaner way to ... More About: Site News , Readings , Recent , The G
10 Online Money Management Tools worth Using
2007-10-22 14:02:00 I ran Across a Mashable post this weekend with 40+ resources for managing money online. This is a pretty extensive list but it doesn’t cover a few of the super brand-new sites I’ve seen. (Such as The UpDown ) So this is my top ten list of money management tools that I use online on ... More About: Tools , Reviews , Personal Finance , Money , Money Management
10 Online Money Management Tools worth Using
2007-10-22 14:02:00 I ran Across a Mashable post this weekend with 40+ resources for managing money online. This is a pretty extensive list but it doesn’t cover a few of the super brand-new sites I’ve seen. (Such as The UpDown ) So this is my top ten list of money management tools that I use online on ... More About: Tools , Reviews , Personal Finance , Money , Money Management
The Grumpstump Stock Picking Championship
2007-10-19 14:31:00 Disappointingly, only Kinney signed up for The UpDown to get in a stock picking war with me. This means I need to up the ante a little bit. My Portfolio is down 2.51% since last week (mainly due to IMB and TMA self-destructing). However, I’m still confident in my stock picking abilities. The Championship rules: Sign up for ... More About: Site News , Freebies , Stock
The Grumpstump Stock Picking Championship
2007-10-19 14:31:00 Disappointingly, only Kinney signed up for The UpDown to get in a stock picking war with me. This means I need to up the ante a little bit. My Portfolio is down 2.51% since last week (mainly due to IMB and TMA self-destructing). However, I’m still confident in my stock picking abilities. The Championship rules: Sign up for ... More About: Site News , Freebies , Stock
Mint.com to Add Budgeting to money tracking
More articles from this author:2007-10-18 13:39:00 Last night I received a comment from Jason Putorti, the Lead Designer of Mint .com, on my comparison of Mint Vs. Mvelopes. It seems that Mint is going to be releasing some budgeting functionality within the next few days. From what Jason hinted at in the comment, it sounds like you will be able to assign a ... More About: Reviews , Personal Finance , Money , Tracking 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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