Today, I present an entry in the Financial Plan Writing Contest. Just a reminder that you can win $250 by participating.  Here are the brief guidelines, to read the full description of the contest, click the link above.

Answer the question: What is your financial plan for the next 10 years?
Be sure to to hit on things such as income, job security, budgeting, expense management, real estate, investing, retirement planning, etc. – the more detailed within specific areas the better!
Be sure to discuss how the economy might affect your plan – …

As of writing, we’re down over 150 points on the Dow today.  We’re getting some more exciting moves in the market.  This will make several days in a row of near 100 point moves or over 100 point moves.  While nothing can really be infered at this point, it is definitely more exciting for those of us who watch the market on a daily basis and definitely those of us who play the market on both the long and short side.
I tend to believe that the market has topped for …

I’ve looked into buying physical gold and silver recently, and have come to two realizations:

Finding physical gold and silver is not easy, which shows the demand is high – take that for what it’s worth
Owning physical gold is about security, not speculating or trading

I’m not going to comment on the first realization even though I think it is an important thing to take notice of.  Today, I’m going to focus on why owning gold and silver is for security.
First off, gold and silver prices are very volatile.  Trying to speculate …

I’ve been saying for about a year now that the recovery in this country is not a full, robust recovery (if a recovery at all).  The economy has basically been split into two economies: 1) the Wall St. and big corporation economy and 2) main street, small business, real economy.  The former economy is thriving with cheap money and government stimuli while the latter economy continues to die.
In a recent speech, Greenspan is calilng the U.S. recovery unbalanced.  According to the article:
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Tuesday …

I recently received an offer to buy my blog for $4,000.  The person mentioned it’s negotiable, so let’s say I could have sold it for $6,000.  I refused.  You may think that I should have sold it and then just plowed my efforts into a new blog, but I decided that $6,000 (before taxes) really doesn’t “move the needle” enough.  I mean sure I’d love to have a few more grand in my bank account, but I really haven’t worked hard at this blog for a couple years for a …

If you only follow the surface level headlines in the economy and in the stock market, you would probably think things are roaring in the economy.  Reading headlines like Target’s profit rises 53.7% would probably make you think that things are just wonderful in the business world and we’re recovery like crazy!
While earnings beats are definitely a positive since they do indicate earnings growth, we need to remember that these are typically year-over-year comparisons and over the last few quarters, we’ve been comparing earnings with earnings from late 2008 and …

Today, I present an entry in the Financial Plan Writing Contest. Just a reminder that you can win $250 by participating.  Here are the brief guidelines, to read the full description of the contest, click the link above.

Answer the question: What is your financial plan for the next 10 years?
Be sure to to hit on things such as income, job security, budgeting, expense management, real estate, investing, retirement planning, etc. – the more detailed within specific areas the better!
Be sure to discuss how the economy might affect your plan – …

I enjoy checking out thriving websites that are bringing in decent revenue for the website operator.  As you know, generating income-replacing money from this website and my other websites is a huge goal for me.
Today, I want to take a look at MakingMoneyMommy.com.
Advertising Revenue
After looking around the site, you will see that the site has pretty significant advertising on it.  If you take a look at the top right portion of the page, you will see six links.  These links go for $500 a month, which means those links alone …