Words of Advice on Sele...

The following is an excerpt from Securing Your Financial Future: Complete Personal Finance for Beginners courtesy of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. All Rights Reserved. A list of brief tips on some of the most common categories of insurance appears below, plus a few important items...

Does God Want You to Be...

For those of you new to Free Money Finance, I post on The Bible and Money every Sunday. Here’s why . Here are the opening lines from a recent Wall Street Journal article : God does not want you to be rich. Every so often, he raises up a prophet to teach wayward profiteers about the...

Reader Profile: WW...

The following is the latest post in my “Reader Profiles” series. Each post in this series details the financial situation and challenges of an FMF reader. The purpose of this series is to help us all identify with people like us (in similar situations — not all will be,...

LinkedIn Best Practices...

The following is reprinted, with permission of the publisher, from The Panic Free Job Search: Unleash the Power of the Web and Social Networking to Get Hired © 2012 Paul Hill. Published by Career Press, Pompton Plains, NJ. All rights reserved. LinkedIn is to business networking what...

Death by a Thousand Fee...

The following is excerpted with permission of the publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. from The Indomitable Investor: Why a Few Succeed in the Stock Market When Everyone Else Fails by Steven M. Sears. Copyright (c) 2012 by Steven M. Sears.   Finding a good stockbroker, or reliable...

Box of Books #25...

The box of books giveaways through my giveaway newsletter have been very popular, so below I’m detailing another set of them that will be up for grabs this month (if you want a chance to win, be sure to sign up for my newsletter here .) For now, here are the books I’ve...

Tithe or Die...

For those of you new to Free Money Finance, I post on The Bible and Money every Sunday. Here’s why . The following is a guest post from Tim at Faith and Finance , a Christian financial help blog that provides financial insights for individuals, businesses, and churches. Outside of...

Carnival of Financial P...

Welcome to this week’s Carnival of Financial Planning. This edition is arranged by subject heading, so that you can browse efficiently. Enjoy! Budgeting and Economics Jason presents 6 Spring Break Ideas for Families posted at One Money Design , saying, Check out these spring break...

Oh, No, or Ono?...

For those of you new to Free Money Finance, I post on The Bible and Money every Sunday. Here’s why . The following is an excerpt from Building Your Financial Fortress in 52 Days: The Lessons of Nehemiah . This post is from Day 43. As if Nehemiah needed more trouble. Two out of the...

The War Against the Ric...

The following is excerpted with permission of the publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. from Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics by Ziad K. Abdelnour with Wesley A. Whittaker. Copyright (c) 2012 by Ziad K. Abdelnour. It’s on the border of...