Real Estate Bubble Blogs
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Archived Under: Directory Updates , Financial Blogs , Real Estate
Tags: Financial Blogs, Real Estate, Real Estate Bubble Blogs
Be worried, be very worried.
In addition to global warming, the dollar, and Iraq, add the housing bubble to your list of worries.
This is old news for many, but the chorus of concern seems to be reaching a climax.
Get ready for another decline say a growing list of real estate bubble bloggers.
In surveying real estate bubble bloggers, Moneysmartz found some very, very depressing news and more than a few blogs worth a moment of your time, particularly if you live in a bubble market.
- patrick.net - All about the housing bubble.
- Housing Crash page from Patrick.net - News from crashing real estate markets.
- Housing Panic - There Goes the Neighborhood (Housing Bubble RIP 2001 - 2006) - Documenting in real time the rise and fall of the worldwide housing bubble.
- Piggington's Econo-Almanac - Southern California housing bubble news and analysis.
- America's overvalued real estate - Following the US real estate crash of 2006.
- Another F@cked Borrower - Mortgage insiders view on the lending industry, the housing bubble, and the loose credit standards that drove it all.
- Bubble Markets Inventory Tracking - Tracking real estate inventory in bubble markets.
- Bubble Meter - Dedicated to uncovering the who, what, where, when, and how of the housing bubble.
- BubbleTrack - Analyzing the housing market in the northeastern region of the United States. In addition to general market commentary, BubbleTrack provides market and news analysis based on a complex trending tool called BATT.
- Flip This - A blog dedicated to really stupid (or grossly optimistic) real estate flips in Orange County.
- Hawaii Housing Bubble - Discussing the impending home price crash and its effect on Hawaii.
- HOUSING BUBBLE? Much bigger than just a housing bubble! - Discussion of the economic issues including the housing bubble.
- Latest Real Estate News from America's Bubbletowns - Latest real estate news from America's bubbletowns.
- Northern New Jersey Real Estate Bubble - Keeping an eye on the Northern New Jersey housing bubble.
- Northern Virginia Bubble - Dedicated to tracking the real estate bubble in the Northern Virginia counties of the DC Metro region, including Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William, Fauquier, and Loudoun counties.
- Out at the peak - What to do with your money after getting out of the housing market.
- Seattle Bubble - News and discussion about the real estate / housing bubble, specifically as it pertains to the Seattle area.
- SF Bay Area Home Price and Mortgage Insanity Blog - Burbed.com - Forget stock options, just give me a house.
- South Bay Beaches Housing Bubble - South Bay area of Los Angeles real estate bubble watching.
- South Florida Real Estate Bubble - Dedicated to the real estate bubble In South Florida.
- Southern California Real Estate Bubble Crash - News and information about the Southern California real estate bubble.
- The Boy in the Big Housing Bubble - Los Angeles bubble news and information.
- The Housing Bubble Blog - Examining the home price boom and its effect on owners, lenders, regulators, realtors and the economy as a whole.
- The Housing Bubble in Washington DC - Tracking the great real estate crash of 2006 in real time.
- The Jersey Shore Real Estate Bubble - A chronicle of the collapse of the Jersey Shore real estate market, and elsewhere.
- Watching America's real estate markets crash in 2006 - Foreclosures are the future.
Federal Reserve Bank Publications
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In honor of the beginning of the Ben Bernanke era at the Federal Reserve today (the Central bank boosted rates a quarter-point to 4.75%); we thought it might be helpful to brush up on what's happening throughout the Federal Reserve System. In case you were wondering, the Federal Reserve System includes twelve district banks and a board of governors. District banks publish economic reports and commentary on the latest trends. The Moneysmartz Directory includes a complete list of District Federal Reserve Bank and Federal Reserve Board of Governors Publications.
Investing Blogs
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"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it." Agatha Christie
"Beware of the young doctor and the old barber." Benjamin Franklin
The world of investment blogging is blossoming, with a lot of good advice, and even more bad advice, some of it coming from individuals who probably couldn't tell the difference between a 401k and mutual fund.
With the always-present disclaimer of "buyer beware", we offer the recently updated Moneysmartz Investing Blog directory, full of advice and commentary.
In compiling the new investing blog directory, we found several award-winning sites and a few notable newcomers.
- Bill Cara - Discussion and perspectives on capital markets and social equity.
- Fallond Picks - Market commentary and stock selections using technical analysis.
- footnoted.org - Uncovering the story behind financial statements.
- MaoXian - Market analysis and commentary.
- Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed - Musing about technology, finance, venture capital, and the money culture with Paul Kedrosky.
- Random Roger's Big Picture - Stock market blog about portfolio management, navigating the current market environment, how to analyze and choose foreign stocks, exchange traded funds, and options.
- Seeking Alpha - Dashboard for network of stock market and personal finance blogs.
- SelfInvestors - Online Stock trading/investing of small/mid cap growth, technical analysis, stock charts, commentary, insider buying for the self investor.
- The Kirk Report - Independent and award-winning stock picks and investment advice.
- Trader Mike - A stock trader's daily market commentary and observations including trading ideas and stocks to watch.
- Ugly Chart - Beauty is in the eye of the shareholder.
- Under The Counter - It's all about the people, stupid. Who's getting paid, laid, hired and fired on The Street.
My Next Phase
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Archived Under: Financial Planning , Life Events , New and Notable , Retirement Planning
Tags: Financial Planning, Life Events, My Next Phase, New and Notable, Retirement Planning
Site Name: My Next Phase
Description: Making an easy transition to retirement depends on both financial and non-financial factors. My Next Phase focuses on non-financial factors, providing "resources for guided self-reflection, exploration and planning to help people gain clarity about their futures." Fee-based services include an online assessment, coaching, and classes. Initial registration includes a 20-question assessment.
Features: Personality test assessing one's ability to make the transition to retirement and a significant resource section with link's to non-financial retirement resources.
Profile of Site Founders: After selling his family business, Michael S. Burnham, Jr. wondered about the next phase of his life. Burnham worked with his colleagues, J. Randolph Burnham, PhD and Eric Sundstrom, PhD, "to create a unique, personalized, non-financial retirement guidance tool for the tens of millions of people who will retire in the coming years."
Bottom Line: If you are making the transition to retirement, then a second-opinion may be just what the doctor ordered. My Next Phase offers a friendly helping hand from individuals experiencing a similar transition. At the minimum, a test run of the site will only take ten minutes of your time.
Retirement Annuities
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Tags: Financial Planning, Retirement Annuities, Retirement Planning
With the first wave of baby boomers preparing for retirement, viable sources of life income, including annuities, will be near the top of retirement planning considerations.
Market leaders include Fidelity and Vanguard.
For a primer on annuities visit the CCH Financial Planning Toolkit or Fool.com's What's to like about Annuities.
For a list of retirement annuity products, services, and information, visit the recently updated Moneysmartz retirement annuities directory.
Accounting
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Archived Under: Accounting , Directory Updates , Taxes
Tags: Accounting, Taxes
It's one of those necessary evils in life. Either you do-it-yourself with tools like Quicken and Turbo Tax, or you hire a professional. Whatever your preference, it's hard to escape the subject of accounting when managing your personal finances. If you really want to torture yourself, particularly since it's tax season, then visit the recently updated Accounting category in the Moneysmartz Directory. In addition to links to the IRS, bookkeepers, and accounting firms, you'll find accounting dictionaries, small business accounting resources, and a lot of software. If the IRS comes your way, then the tax negotiation and representation section may help save the day. One hidden gem was the Treasury Direct Tax Advantage calculator, helpful for computing the after-tax return on tax advantaged investments.
Google Finance
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Archived Under: Investing , New and Notable
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If you like Yahoo! Finance, then you may want to spend a few minutes at the recently launched Google Finance. Site FAQs explain that the site is in early beta and will offer information about "North American stocks, mutual funds and public and private companies along with charts, news and fundamental financial data. Google says the new site "offers an easier way to search for stocks, mutual funds, public and private companies. Further, Google Finance also offers a broad range of company news and information in order to deliver more relevant, unbiased results in a clean, uncluttered user interface." Site features include company search, interactive charts, news and more news, blogs, company management teams, discussion groups, and portfolios.
Individual Tax Software
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With so many options for preparing and paying individual income taxes, it's not surprising that many of us will wait until the last second to file our individual income tax returns.
In addition to industry leaders like Turbo Tax and Tax Cut from H&R Block, there are plenty of fee services like Tax Brain and free services like eSmart Tax.
For a list of individual tax software products and services, visit the recently updated Moneysmartz individual tax software directory.
Welcome to Moneysmartz
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Welcome to Moneysmartz!
A research study by Fidelity Investments found that only 29% of Americans think they are competent at planning their personal finances. Lacking the confidence to make financial decisions, gaping holes exist for many including a reported one in four working Americans who don't have a retirement plan in place.
Despite an abundance of information, tools, and resources to manage and plan our finances, many of us feel overwhelmed and confused and as a result put off what we could start today.
The goal of Moneysmartz is to help you get started and stay on track in the management and planning of your personal finances. We know you don't have time to spare, so we'll sift through the clutter and guide you to "just enough" of what you need to make smarter financial decisions.
The key sections of Moneysmartz include:
Moneysmartz Guide: Organized by major personal finance categories with hand picked listings selected just for you.
The Moneysherpa Pages: Expert insight and guidance to help you save time and get the most from your personal finances.
Best of the Personal Finance Web: The most reliable and relevant sources of personal finance products, services, and information.
New and Notable Personal Finance Sites: Interesting, entertaining, and helpful personal finance blogs, websites, videos, eBooks, and podcasts.
Guide Updates: Updates to the human edited and hand picked Moneysmartz personal finance guide.
Thank you for visiting and all the best during your financial journey!
Investing Chats and Forums
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When entering online chats and forums, particularly in the general investing arena, Publilius Syrus offers a timeless disclaimer: "Many receive advice, few profit by it."
With these sage words in mind, Moneysmartz identified the most active general investment forums covering topics such as penny stocks, multi level marketing, trading, and business development companies.
Investing Chats and Forums
BDC Investor: Discussion community and investor resource, focusing on business development companies (BDCs).
BestCalls.com: A free directory of investor conference calls and webcasts. CallTracker service provides advanced notice of conference calls by email.
Club for Value Investing: An investment club for value investors to share their best stock ideas. Admission is free, but selective and limited to only 250 savvy investors.
Daytraders.org: Professional live free chat room for day traders. Running since 1996.
eInvesting.com: Investing forum and stock market game.
Free Financial Advice Forum: Moderated personal finance forum specializing in financial help.
Golden Talk: Mainly about High Yield Investment Programs, games and general investment issues.
Investing Pub Money Forums: Investing money forums.
Investors Hub: Large, dynamic community of investors sharing market insights.
Millennium-traders.com: A subscription based chat room for daytraders.
MSN Money Forums: Investment boards and competitions from MSN Money.
Penny Stock Plays: Discussion forums, market analysis, stock trading tips, penny stock plays, including market commentary and corporate interviews.
PureChat: Discussion of investing and trading of all instruments.
Raging Bull: Investment message boards.
StockHideout.com: Stock forum and trading community.
T2W Trading Community: Community website for active traders (short-term and daytraders) with live trading rooms, trading discussion boards, trading book store, infomation about trading/brokers/software/technial analysis.
Tactical Trader: News, reviews and discussions from the world of financial trading.
Talk Gold: Forum for discussion of high yield investment programs, foreign exchange, and general investing.
The Critical Mass Discussion Forums: Discussion forums for aggressive investors.
Web Life Forum: High yield investment program discussion.
Personal Finance Bloggers' Net Worth Index (BNWI): February 2006
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The Bloggers' Net Worth Index (BNWI), sponsored by the Moneysmartz Personal Finance Blog, produces monthly data on changes in the net worth of personal financial bloggers.
The February BNWI increased 3.4 percent, comparing favorably with the Dow Jones, NASDAQ, and S&P stock indices.
Personal finance bloggers of note include Done Dirt Cheap , with a 39.8 percent increase over January and Samerwriter , with the largest dollar increase of $28,752 and largest reported net worth of $613,210.
For the full year, the BNWI increased 7.6 percent, handily beating the major stock indices.
Personal finance bloggers of note include Mapgirl's Fiscal Challenge , with a 221 percent increase over December and Samerwriter , with the largest dollar increase of $60,996.
Selection criteria for the BNWI includes financially oriented blog content, recent posting activity, and self-reported net worth.
February additions to the BNWI include Jack's Cash, My Financial Journey, Samewriter, Fire…by 2018, Moomin Valley, The Financial Ladder, Financial Freedumb, and Make Love, Not Debt.
Personal financial bloggers interested in the BNWI program should send an email to the Moneysmartz Editor.
Tax Blogs
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Does the thought of anything related to taxes send shivers down your spine? Since we are in the midst of tax season, we don't have a choice; we have to talk about taxes.
In addition to well known tax websites, like H&R Block, Tax Cut, and IRS.com, tax bloggers now offer a small, but growing body of information, insight, and commentary.
Moneysmartz took a closer look at this trend-setting group of tax bloggers and identified tax blogs most helpful to individual financial decision-making.
Many narrowly focused and newly minted blogs remain on the cutting room floor. We included a few sites on our list with a narrow focus that have cross-over appeal to a mainstream audience, including Tax Prof Blog, a blog we recently reviewed.
When reviewing the list, you'll need to conjure up as much tax nerd as humanly possible. You'll probably find the list most helpful if you receive one of those scary letters from the IRS.
Tax Blogs: Best of the Personal Finance Web 2006
Taxes
Don't Mess With Taxes: Tax news, tips, commentary and humor from professional tax journalist Kay Bell.
Our Taxing Times: A blog about US taxes, the tax system, and the tax preparation business.
Roth and Company, P.C., Tax Updates: Tax updates and commentary.
Tax Guru-Ker$tetter Letter: Arkansas CPA helps capitalists, investors and small business owners win the tax game.
Taxes>Business
A Taxing Business: News and information on tax and business organization issues.
Taxes>Business>Ohio
Frederick Focke Mischler, Attorney: Review of accounting, tax, and legal issues that face businesses and business owners in Ohio.
Taxes>California
Taxable Talk: Focuses on taxes and how they impact what we, as citizens and taxpayers, get to keep in our pockets.
Taxes>Estate Planning
Death and Taxes - The Blog: Commentary on estate planning, estate administration, and real estate issues from a Chicago-area attorney.
Taxes>Tax Issues
Talking Taxes: Review of important issues in federal, state and local tax reform, with an emphasis on fair and adequate taxation.
Taxes>Tax Law
MauledAgain: Tax law professor's commentary on tax law, legal education, the First Amendment, religion, and law generally, with sporadic attempts to connect all of this to genealogy, theology, music, model trains, and chocolate chip cookies.
TaxProf Blog: A blend of reference tools and announcements about developing tax issues targeting tax professors but with applicability to individuals looking for current news and information about tax law changes on topics such as mortgage interest deductions and tax shelters.
Taxes>Tax Preparation Services and Software
Taxalicious: Provides information about tax preparation services and software.