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The EV Fleet as Spearhead

Are Rental Companies Leading the EV Switch-Over? While consumers still balk at buying new EVs, they are likelier to plunk money for an EV rental car from an EV fleet. So, are business interests, like rental cars, driving the EV switchover? Sure, after all, rental car companies run fleets. That’s the idea: Fleet. The government…

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Prosperity Anxiety

While considering getting rich (and why you want to get rich), consider what prosperity anxiety it creates in today’s culture. While getting rich is everyone’s dream, few people know what they’d do with all that money. But first, let’s look at how much money you need to be rich. Prosperity Anxiety: Is There an Official…

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Climate Change and Committments

The omission of the US (and that other major polluter, China) from the climate COP 28 summit in Dubai because they don’t take climate change seriously might sound sad, and it gives me pause as an American concerned with this catastrophe on an approaching horizon. I mean, do America’s climate initiatives have to be so…

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Gig Work You Can Do Today

Since school started, it’s time to find money for tuition or to pay bills, and that’s where gig work shines. So, what’s available in Gig work we can do today? In other words, what’s going on with your side hustles? Let’s look! Side hustles can bridge the gap between what you want and what you…

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The Equity Pitfall

So, I get a lot of junk mail advertising passed through my door slot, dropping on my sunny front hall rug, some offering home equity loans. A home equity loan, the mailing says, can solve all my financial woes. It can pay off my credit cards, finance a home remodel, fund education, and buy that…

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Make Stock Investing Fun

During summer doldrums. Stock investing looks harsh to me in August, even something the gods have fixed against me when I look at my portfolio and wonder, “Where is the performance?” When your investments are in the doldrums, what can you do? Do Some Analysis Experts say the first place to go is to the…

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Is Rental Insurance For You?

So my landlord upsells rental insurance every month (she doesn’t require I outright buy rental insurance), plugging the idea when I pay my rent electronically. US rental insurance generates 4.5 billion dollars in profits, so it’s not unusual to buy rental insurance or for a landlord to suggest it to renters. My landlord isn’t getting…

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Saving Money With Selective Shopping

Use Selective Shopping When You Shop So, with all the deals in cyberspace and the mall, would a new approach to shopping make a difference, an approach that might make it easier to shop successfully? Then read these shopping tips to try the next time you’re out and about. What is Selective Shopping? Selective shopping…

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Spendee: How to Use This App?

Spendee suggests you “get your money into shape” using their smartphone app, so how exactly should you use it? Spendee offers two essential money management tools: An expense tracker that helps you keep track of everything you’re spending and a money manager suite with impressive personal finance tools like budgeting, money-saving tips, Crypto tracking, and…

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Certificate of Deposit: Make it Work For You

Whenever I have more money in my checking account than I need to meet my monthly expenses, I’m confronted with the dilemma of what to do with the surplus funds. My banker suggested putting it into certificates of deposit or CDs. How can I use certificates of deposit to make the most money from my…