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 S&P 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 Latest
The Best Alternatives to a 401(k)
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? We’ll leave a light on. Spend more time at the gym. Buy more flattering clothes. Vacuum the house once in a while. Damn, […]
Carnival of Wealth, Back from the Dead Edition
If you missed last week’s Carnival of Wealth…well, you weren’t 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 […]
An Investopedia Repost About Lockouts and Such
From our Investopedia files, a piece about sports labor strife. Which doesn’t pertain to your life unless you’re an athlete, an agent, or maybe a team owner, but it’s an entertaining read. Trust us, we wrote it. Here’s an enticing sample: By 2011, pro football had metamorphosed from popular sport into national obsession. That spring, […]
Carnival of Wealth, Andrew Pohl Edition
That’s 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 […]
From the Archives
15 Years to Freedom
Thanks to Arohan at Personal Dividends for indirectly helping us out yet again. He’s the guy who graciously lets us guest host the Carnival of Wealth every month, and also let us write this post for his last year. It appears here in slightly updated form on Recycle Friday. Again, updates in CYC Burnt Umber. […]
Optionality. The Choice is Yours.
Don’t make dumb bets. We recently read Antifragile, the latest from iconoclast and self-described flâneur Nassim Nicholas Taleb. If you’re unfamiliar with Taleb, he’s most famous for writing the predecessor to Antifragile,a book called The Black Swan. Its main argument is that there are certain events that defy prediction and that you can’t do anything […]
Putting the “Lies” in “Centralized”
Answering this question for the first and last time: Q: Why do you only post once a week? A: Technology has not compressed the length of time it takes to research, prepare, write and edit a worthwhile post. There are web “columnists” who write a column-length piece every day – and it shows. If you […]
We Put the “Fun” in “Bond Funds”
Why would you invest in a bond fund? It sounds like the most conservative of investments. It isn’t. Bond funds, like the bonds they’re comprised of, offer yields that most stocks and mutual funds don’t. Bond funds can be volatile. We examined the composition of the Wells Fargo Advantage Total Return Bond Fund […]