I have been working on improving "The Debt Free Advocate" to be the place to go for financial help. A tip I had picked up from ProBlogger Darren Rowse is to show some love to your fellow bloggers.
I follow several personal finance blogs that offer great tips on debt and finance and was thinking a should spread the love. If I love these blogs others could possibly too. So we are going to start recapping the choice articles of the blogs we follow to help spread financial education.
- Always read the fine print: the House approved a landmark plan that would cost $1.1 trillion over 10 years and extend coverage to 36 million uninsured Americans. Now What? Find out the bill will actually affect consumers. Also, more credit card company shenanigans: One cardholder shares her experience with Citi: The bank will double her interest rate unless she transfers $5,000 of other debt onto her Citi Credit Card [The Consumerist]
- Shopping around for a new stock broker? Christmas came early. Digerati gives you the cheat sheet on their favorite online stock brokers, along with limited time promotions for new account holders. [Digerati Life]
- Modeled after New York Magazine's "Sex Diaries," "Money Diaries" is an ongoing collection of stories that track the spending habits of real people over the period of seven days. what are your thoughts on the single mom with bad habits and bad checks? [I Will Teach You to Be Rich]
- The recession takes it toll in office politics. A behavioral economics look at how employees have to carry the weight of laid-off co-workers. [Marketplace]
- Parents worried about the cost of higher education often consider sending their kids to a community college in hopes of a transfer to a better school. But this isn't always the smartest thing to do. [The College Solution Blog]
- A Harvard economist passes judgement on the expanded home buyers tax credit that President Obama signed into law last week. The professor's verdict? The credit encourages "purely mindless house swapping." [Economix]
- Tough times make us more willing and likely to protect the things we have, but extended warranties probably aren't worth the extra cost [Wise Bread]
- Watching The Karate Kid can teach you how not to accumulate credit debt. Use visualization techniques to keep your spending in check. [Free Money Finance]
- Thinking about re gifting something this holiday season? Brad Tuttle has some rules on how to do it right. [It's Your Money]
- When it comes to car insurance, pricing is based on 10 factors that are out of your control. So it pays to shop around. [MintLife]
- Recent credit card reform has prompted the industry to enact the Safe Credit Revision Everyone Wins Undertaking, also known as S.C.R.E.W.U. Animator Mark Fiore explains it in the Video below. [The Consumer Reporter]
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