Financial Eyes & Ears

Online banking is all about convenience for most people. Indeed, I love banking online. It makes it easy to check my balances, transfer funds, and pay bills. It doesn’t matter where I am; online banking means that I can take care of everything financial without having to worry about being in town. Unfortunately, as with [...]

“Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.” – Pride & Prejudice, 1813 Mark Twain was right when he said that although history doesn’t necessarily repeat itself, it certainly rhymes. In today’s world, I believe Gordon [...]

This is one of the questions I recently received from one of my subscribers. The right answer, of course, is it depends. Why do Stock Prices Change? Before I explain how to figure out what to do, it is important to understand why stock prices rise and fall. Every stock has its own market made [...]

This guest post from Aloysa is part of the “reader stories” feature at Get Rich Slowly. Some stories contain general advice; others are examples of how a GRS reader achieved financial success or failure. These stories feature folks from all levels of financial maturity and with all sorts of incomes. You can read more from [...]

Fridays are typically “Ask the Readers” days at Get Rich Slowly, but today I’m doing something a little different. I’ve made a couple of big revelations lately, and those have generated a lot of questions. Today, I’ll answer a handful of these questions in order to give an outline of how I’m managing my money. [...]

This post is from staff writer Sarah Gilbert. For the past two years doing taxes has not been bearable: it’s been terrific! I’ve used an online e-filing service for several years now after many years of taking great pleasure — really! — in filling out the paper forms, just because it gets the money to [...]

This post is from staff writer Tim Sullivan. My brother, my best friend, and my girlfriend’s sister are all getting married in the upcoming year, so I’ve heard a lot about wedding registries lately, and there seem to be many pros and cons. Personally, one of my least favorite things in life is going to [...]

When I started Get Rich Slowly — on 15 April 2006 — it made very little money. It earned a few pennies per day. Slowly, the income grew. A few pennies per day turned into a few dollars per day, and that turned into tens of dollars per day. Eventually I was making enough money [...]