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
Programmed to receive
Three years after its release, your humble blogger recently read Heaven & Hell, the tell-all book by Don Felder. He’s the guitarist who joined the Eagles in 1974 and left amid a flurry of lawsuits 27 years later. If you’re familiar with the band’s story, you can skip the next paragraph. After the Eagles […]
August’s (Financial) Retard of the Month
This is probably a parody. This has to be a parody. No one can be this self-unaware, can he? But then, it seems like a tremendous amount of work for a parody, and to what end? It’s not like the author has the reach of the Onion, or even of the Fargo-Moorhead Observer. […]
Months later, this book is still garbage III
Reading 3 reviews of Jim Randel books is more entertaining than reading even one of the actual books. Last year Financial Highway asked us to review one of his books, then another, then a third. Unfortunately, he’s written more. Fortunately, we weren’t asked to review the remainder. We call this Recycle Friday at Control Your […]
Separate And Unequal
In a recent Carnival of Wealth we ran a post from someone who wrote: In an era when the 400 richest Americans account for the same amount of collective wealth as 62% of the nation’s entire population combined and the United States is the fourth most wealth-unequal country in the world, something is grievously wrong […]