I was going to cover something else completely today but saw that taxes are the topic du jour on Twitter (if you want to follow me on Twitter, I’m @Jessc098).
That got me thinking… the vast majority of Americans file on or after the deadline…very much unlike me. I consider a perk of being self-employed being [...]

This is day 4 in a series for the month of April: Financial Literacy Month.I stumbled upon The Motley Fool a long time ago. I remember learning about stock-trading via a game they had (way back when E*Trade first launched). I have since kept using Motley Fool occasionally whenever I want to learn something [...]

I’ve been a personal finance “hobbyist” since I first saw Suze Orman on TV a few years ago, and discovered that you don’t have to have money to be involved in your finances.
Seriously though, I got involved in my retirement planning, and household budgeting. We paid off our cars early and “burned the candle at [...]

Lending Club announced today a new self-directed IRA product.
This is great news for folks like myself who are both self-employed and fans of P2P lending.
If you want to start an account for the 2008 tax year, you need to be enrolled and have funded your account by April 15th. The account goes [...]