I spent the last week out in San Francisco and couldn’t sleep the other night so I thought I would, in my sleepy yet unable to sleep haze, put up a video blog post to kick off the Bargaineering VideoCast (BVC) series. This one will talk about how you should always take what personal finance ex...

Think of this as Volume 12, Number 8 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. As bad as financial reporters, analysts and experts were when the market was going up they are worse when it's going down. Let's start with what we know. Money is a store of value but trillions ...

So many gay men, such a good time. I saw Kathy Griffin at Madison Square Garden's WaMu Theater last night—as she pointed out, the WaMu has to be renamed in a few months thanks to its namesake bank's disastrous collapse and since nobody wants to pay for the privilege it'll just be calle...

  Hey, Scanner Brian: Hayden Panettiere is single again. [Us] Think your man might be a closeted homo? Take this super-reliable, scientific quiz to find out for sure! [MyDailyMoment] A book written early in J.R.R. Tolken's career is about to be published for the first time. [Yahoo!] Suze Or...

Suze Orman's financial expertise and no nonsense style can be intimidating. However, her decision to put stock in gay bonds is one investment we can unequivocally get behind: Put your money where Suze's mouth is, America. The archival photos of our coming depression will look a lot less downbeat if ...

I want to introduce you to my Frugal Guru, Jen from Jlogged.com. She recently redid her website to help people use their money wisely. If I want inspiration to stay on track with the family budget she’s my “go to.” Jen’s one of the few people I can compare detailed notes with...

Unlike most of America - we have no car payments. And we love it. We keep an emergency fund of $1,000 for car repairs. And we use it. Lately we use it a lot. Over the summer we drained it - more than once. Lately, we’ve been replacing batteries, alternators, air conditioning compressors, start...

[This post is the eleventh in the 2008 40-Days Forward series. The series begins here.] A while back I was talking to someone who was describing an untenable work situation. She was totally burned out, just slogging through her daily routine. “I have to tough it out for now,� she told me, “but...

Ugh. This is going to be a ranting entry! First, Hillary Clinton! It’s so annoying how now her campaign is saying “We have MOMENTUM!” You won TWO major states in one day. That is NOT momentum! You’ve lost 11 in a ROW! Wining two is not that big of a deal! Sure, good job. You ...

Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight At 8, FOX has two new episodes of Cops , then a new America's Most Wanted . Nickelodeon has a new iCarly at 8, followed by a new Naked Brothers Band . At 9, CNBC has a new Suze Orman Show . TLC has a new Trading Spaces at 9. Food Network has a new Paul...