September, 2009

Life can bring you down sometimes

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Investing 101: How Diversification Reduces Risk

This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the advisor for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. He contributes one new article to Get Rich Slowly every two weeks. Quick! If you had to choose just three types of assets that should be in ...

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80% off Restaurant.com: $25 Certificates for $2

Restaurant.com is offering a 80% off with the coupon code CHEF, resulting in a $25 “certificate” for $2. Offer ends September 30th. Contrary to my skeptical remarks (I’ve never used one of these before), many readers responded that they indeed found these certificates very useful in savings some money. Read their comments here. Here’s a sample ...

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Student Loans by the Numbers

While it’s been said you should never underestimate the value of a college education, neither should you underestimate its price. Without proper financial planning, you could be paying off those student loans for the rest of your life. College tuition costs are rising at twice the rate of inflation, in part because colleges are ...

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Watch Your Stimulus Dollars Work | Recovery.gov Relaunches

Site had been criticized for being “out of date” Your stimulus dollars at work, as recounted by the new Recovery.gov (Photo: flickr.com) Is America’s economic engine running without knocks and pings yet? I would suggest that we are far from being out of the woods yet, despite pockets of stability. However, those who are ready to exclaim ...

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