Topic: Personal Budgeting

Wesabe Personal Finance Site Goes Broke; HelloWallet Fills Its Coffers

Wesabe, a personal finance competitor to Mint.com that emphasized its community features, ran out of money. CEO Mark Hedlund wrote in his farewell message that the site had been operating on starvation rations recently, which is ...READ»

Alex Payne, One of Twitter's First Employees, Deposits Himself at Banksimple

One of Twitter's earliest employees joins a startup intent on simplifying the way you bank.READ»

Move My Net Worth: Educational Video Library

One of the key advantages that you gain when you join the Move My Net Worth Movement is access to an extensive educational video library. Steven Vanderhoof, also known as America’s Personal Finance Coach and the author of ...READ»

FiLife Goes Broke: Is There Any Personal Finance Hope for Generation Debt?

The abrupt shuttering of FiLife, a well-known personal finance destination backed by IAC and Dow Jones Interactive, has loosed speculation that the site was paying for clicks to reach its eye-popping 3.4 million monthly unique ...READ»

How to Prevent and Treat Student Loan Debt

Thinking about going back to school for a new career? It's a tempting option during tough economic times. But if your career path doesn’t work out as planned, your resulting debts may end up limiting your options instead of widening ...READ»

Stock Market Investors Beware

Having “the stomach for investing” can tell you whether you’ll win…or loseREAD»

Financial Aid for Moms Going Back to School

Single moms must not drop their dreams of a career or returning to school. But one thing that makes moms drop this issue is the bureaucracy and the tons of papers that need to be filled in. That paper is required in order to get a student loan. But this should not be like that. Things should go much smoother.READ»

Wanna Know How Your Neighbors Spend Their Money? It's All on Bundle.com

These days, there are few things more valuable than finding your virtual doppelganger--a "friend" who shares many, if not most, of your tastes and traits. On Last.fm, his scrobbles reveal catchy new songs. On Twitter, her tweets ...READ»

Financial Issues on Focus

People are always rushing off somewhere. They always have something important to do and they no longer have the time to do certain errands such as banking transactions. This is the reason why an online banking account is the most ...READ»

Sunday, April 19, 2009 Cocaine, Pot, Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide...All together now

f it is going to be legal in Orgeon the Hemlock Society (I’ve read their foundation’s material), can legally offer drugs assisting persons’ in taking their own lives, and, the drug recipes thereof implicit for cooking up ones’ own suicide, why ought cocaine and pot be illegal in Oregon then (?) I want to know lawmakers (please); this comment doubly applies to all you left leaning liberals considering the idea of instituting the idea into law in other states in America. READ»

For-Profit Colleges and the Student-Loan-Default Gap

The Student-Loan-Default GapREAD»

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Data Mining the Mint.com Demographic

Mint is already aggregating data from its 1.5 million users and mining it for personal spending trends. Now the newly-acquired company is planning to sell that data on a case-by-case basis.READ»

Mint's Founder Gets Control of Intuit's Personal Finance Division

Yesterday, we reported that popular personal finance site Mint.com would be sold to Intuit for $170 million, just a few weeks after Founder and CEO Aaron Patzer closed a fresh $14 million round of "preemptive" funding. "We could have ...READ»

Think of Change as the Constant - Not the Variable...

 Now Online...www.financialconservation.comThere has been for some time a disconnect between the financial markets and the real economy which they are suppose to reflect.An infinite amount of resource and focus is given, from the ...READ»

How Much Utah Life Insurance Do You Need?

If you have a family that's dependent on your income, then you need Utah life insurance.READ»

Financial 2.0 Services Growing, Cocky: "Banks Are Evil" Proclaims Mint CEO

    People around the world are radically changing their attitudes towards saving and spending, and alternative financial services sites are reaping the benefits. That was the message from the young ...READ»

MyRichUncle is Out of Cash

MyRichUncle was an intriguing startup student loan company with an innovative, white-knight approach when I wrote about them in the 2006 Fast Company 50. When I talked to them, the two 20-something founders seemed cocky, but sincere. ...READ»

Diversify is the watchcry for business communicators in 2009

If I were a financial planner do you think I’d counsel you to invest all your money in one company’s stock? Let’s hope not. Just as financial planners teach principles of diversification—and in these times, even mitigation ...READ»

About Hennion and Walsh

Hennion & Walsh was founded in 1990 with a single goal in mind: to become the nation’s premier provider of investment services to and advocate for individual investors. As such, our disciplined, personalized approach has helped thousands of individuals grow and protect their investments. Hennion & Walsh’s heritage is being one of the nation’s leading independent specialists in municipal bonds for individual investors, but we offer a full suite of equity and fixed-income products and services including wealth management.READ»

Financial Leadership and Collective Thinking

As a business owner how many times have you experienced an increase in company profit followed by a sudden request for additional expenditures from one or more of your organizational divisions? The underlying reason for this is the people that staff your company will always tend toward spending every dollar that comes through the door. You may even have this tendency yourself. This is the biggest reason why small business owners are in need of financing at this time. It’s time to save America!READ»

Next-Gen Investing

Giants like Fidelity and hot startups such as Thrive are developing new technologies to soothe bewildered investors.READ»

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How's Your Emergency Fund?

Living in California, I have grown used to the idea of keeping an "emergency kit" in the event of an earthquake. It makes sense to have water, canned food, flashlights, spare clothes and cash on hand to carry you through a ...READ»

Scammers pretending to give your stimulus check--Nasty!

Watch out for these snakes! Some people have no ethics at all. I got an email this morning that purported to be from the IRS. The subject was “2008 Economic Stimulus Refund. [Scanned]” And it started like ...READ»

Fast 50 2008: Omniture

The list of indignities we suffer online every day is significant. Our bank hits us up for a high-yield checking account … while we’re in our high-yield checking account. We have to navigate four levels deep at our favorite ...READ»

Fast 50 2008: Omniture

The list of indignities we suffer online every day is significant. Our bank hits us up for a high-yield checking account ... while we're in our high-yield checking account. We have to navigate four levels deep at our favorite sites ...READ»

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