J.D. from Get Rich Slowly was kind enough to host a guest post from me this week: Index Funds: Why Choose Anything Else? A whole myriad of questions were brought up in the comments, so I’d recommend taking a look if that’s a topic you’re interesting in learning more about.
My favorite articles from this week:
Investing Articles
- Why Most People Are So Bad At Picking Stocks (and what does Howie Mandel have to do with it?) from Getting Your Financial Ducks in a Row
- 6 Investing Myths from Financial Highway
- Using a Solo 401(k) to Facilitate Roth IRA Conversions from Five Cent Nickel
- The ABCs of Load Funds from Bad Money Advice
Other Personal Finance Articles
- What is Estate Planning? and What is the Purpose of a Trust? from Good Financial Cents (written by Joe Taxpayer)
- Don’t Buy a Home within 5 Years of Graduation from Bargaineering
- Save Money: Dining Out vs. Groceries Analyzed from Debt Free Adventure
- Make More Time, Oh Yes You Can from MoneyNing
Blog Carnivals
- Tax Carnival hosted by Don’t Mess with Taxes
- Best of Money Carnival hosted by The Amateur Financier
- Carnival of Personal Finance hosted by Suburban Dollar
- The Best of the Best in Money and Personal Finance hosted by Len Penzo
- Economy and Your Finances hosted by One Mint
- Festival of Stocks hosted by Trader Currencies
As always, thanks to each of you for reading. Enjoy your respective weekends.
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Thanks for the link Mike!
Thanks for the mention, Mike – I really appreciate it!
jb
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