20 Cents from April 2010

By 2 Cents on May 3rd, 2010 | Category: 20 Cents | 3 comments

I can’t believe how quickly April passed! It’s already time for the next edition of 20 Cents. This is a collection of 10 articles from around the web that I thought you might find interesting. Obviously, I can’t highlight every great post, but I point out some good ones each day on Twitter. You can follow me @BalanceJunkie. Happy Monday!

1. Don Sutton at Canadian Business had a great article asking this very timely and poignant question: Will You Be Pulled Under If U.S. Banking Reform Fails?

2. Canadian Capitalist posted Book Review: The Big Short on Michael Lewis’ newest book. It details the events in the mortgage market that lead to the U.S. housing crisis and subsequent economic meltdown. Check out the 60 Minutes video he has embedded at the end of the review. I watched the same [...]

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Your Money Ratios Winner & Weekend Reading

By 2 Cents on May 2nd, 2010 | Category: BJ News | Leave a comment

I recently reviewed Your Money Ratios by Charles Farrell and the publisher was kind enough to offer a free copy to one of my readers. If you left a comment on the review, you were entered in the draw. I received 8 comments, so I numbered them from first to eighth. I asked my youngest son to pick a number between 1 and 8 to choose the winner. He chose 7, so Simple Savings will receive the book.

With all that’s happening in the global economy at the moment, it should be a pretty interesting weekend. Meetings are being held in Europe to figure out some way to help Greece manage its untenable debt load. It’s a good time to stay up to date with current events, especially if you have money on the line in the markets.

Still, the types of events that are currently transpiring have [...]

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