Monthly Archives: July 2005

Carnival of Personal Finance #6

Free Money Finance is hosting the sixth installment of the Carnival of Personal Finance.
Each week a different personal finance blog links to posts from various blogs. It’s a great place to find the best posts. Interested in finding more information out about the Carnival, here is an introduction to the Carnival of Personal Finance.
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Current Checking and Savings Rates

I’ve been a steady ING Direct savings account customer for quite some time. They recently moved their savings rate up to 3.15% from 3.00% (yea!). But in the meantime a lot of other savings accounts have popped up that offer slightly higher rates. So far I have been reluctant to switch since ING is so [...]

NetworthIQ

A very interesting site was started this month, NetworthIQ. Using NetworthIQ you can track your net worth over time and choose whether or not to make your profile public. Browsing through the public profiles, they currently have people ranging in net worth from negative values all the way up to $1.9 million. Plus you can [...]

Review cell phone and landline plans

A couple months ago, I realized that I had not looked at our cell phone and landline plans to see if our usage matched our plans. Like I’ve talked about in a post on Vonage, we decided to go with Vonage mainly because we needed an inexpensive way to call Canada.
At first we went with [...]

How do you get your financial news?

The majority of my financial news comes from four different sources:

Recorded CNBC programs
WSJ
finance.yahoo.com
personal finance blogs

I tend to get up in the morning, and since I’m on the west coast, start skimming through CNBC programs such as Morning Call and Power Lunch. The general overview that these programs provide is convenient and I can skip back [...]