CD Ladders and Young Investors: Weekend Reading

A handful of posts from this week that are well worth the time to read:

Investing

Jim from Bargaineering has a great video explaining how CD ladders work.

Neal from Wealth Pilgrim reminds us that if we want to get our portfolios back on track, we need to stay on the train.

David at Pimp Your Finances discusses 10 tips for young investors.

Frugality

Trent from The Simple Dollar discusses the link (or lack thereof) between consumer spending and quality of life.

JD at Get Rich Slowly shares some tips for defeating temptation when you’re tempted to spend.

David at MoneyNing decided it wasn’t worth it to pay for haircuts anymore.

Taxes

From my tax blog:

Education

Four Pillars discusses the wisdom of going back to school during a down economy.

Enjoy the weekend. And as always, thanks for reading. :)

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Comments

  1. Neal Frankle says:
    March 21, 2009 at 11:51 pm

    Thanks for the link and thanks for all the great articles you wrote this week. I learn a lot from you Mike. Please keep it up.

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