We recently discovered the works of behavioral economist Dan Ariely. (Thank you, Amazon [more]

We try not to review books on this site, because most of the requests we get are from authors who range [more]

We started Control Your Cash for one reason:

Your relationship with money is almost certainly dysfunctional. You don’t know what you don’t know, probably because nobody ever taught you.

Fortunately, you can stop letting money act on you – and actually take charge of it.

We don't give patently obvious advice here, stuff like "spend less than you make." (Wow, what insight.)

Instead, we show you what pitfalls to avoid and what quiet opportunities to take advantage of. Spend a little time here and you’ll no longer have to pretend that you know what the SP 500 is. Or whether a Roth IRA is better than a traditional one. You’ll understand the why, and the how.

And you’ll find that personal finance is a lot less complicated than you thought.

The well of creativity is barely a trickle at this point. Our muse went to St. Tropez with someone younger and better-looking, and that was months ago. Is she ever coming back? Well leave a light on. Spend more time at the gym. Buy more flattering clothes. Vacuum the house once in a while. Damn, []

If you missed last weeks Carnival of Wealthwell, you werent the only one. First, the excuse: we use a couple of hosting services to organize the carnival submissions for us. One of those services has been down for a while now, the other one takes submissions and watches them disappear into the ether. So []

From our Investopedia files, a piece about sports labor strife. Which doesnt pertain to your life unless youre an athlete, an agent, or maybe a team owner, but its an entertaining read. Trust us, we wrote it. Heres an enticing sample: By 2011, pro football had metamorphosed from popular sport into national obsession. That spring, []

Thats the problem with being selective. You accept only the good submissions, or the stupendously awful ones, and pretty soon the number of submitters dwindles to a trickle. Presenting another edition of the Carnival of Wealth, the only personal finance blog carnival worth a damn. Even with only 2 submitters. One of whom is []

Like its particle physics counterpart, this has no elegance. It’s just a series of axioms and equations, biding its time until a Grand Unified Theory shows up to replace it. But the Standard Model works. Obey its component dictates, acknowledge its veracity, and while you won’t necessarily get rich you’ll avoid being poor; which []

What does prime rate mean? In between poking fun at people, occasionally we deconstruct complexity and explain what’s what. Prime rate is a term you hear frequently but might not know the meaning of – like “Dow”, “consumer confidence”, and other commonplace but commonly misunderstood terms. (If you can’t get enough of Control Your Cash, []

Q: Just bought my first car, at a price I’m happy with. I shopped around, took advantage of 0% financing, even remembered to walk away when the first dealer hardballed me. Christ, now I have to buy insurance? A: Yes, even if you look both ways at every intersection and keep your hands perpetually at []

Dumb from the customers’ perspective, that is. Ingenious from that of the industry itself. Gambling. Dumber than alcohol, dumber than tobacco, dumber than network TV. At least drinking gives the user an inflated feeling of self-worth, and at least cigarettes make a statement (“I enjoy slowly killing myself while rendering the radius around me []

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