What a week!  We finished up our 10-day journey where we looked at 10 money-saving tips to help us stash $10,000!
Through each of those tips we freed up between $275 per month on the low side all the way up to $950 per month on the high side if you were able to maximize each [...]

A reader named KC recently wrote in with a question about investing for retirement:
I’m 28 years old with a wife and a six month old baby. We’ve always been money-conscious, but would really like to focus our efforts. We both have Roth IRAs, but are not satisfied with them. They are heavily loaded, and we weren’t that familiar with them when we were advised to set them up. My question is where you would recommend I go for a long-term investing vehicle? I always hear to go with no-load mutual funds but would like your opinion.

Wow.  CNNMoney has an article up today about a recently released survey from the Employee Benefit Research Institute.  They surveyed 1153 US workers and retirees older than 25 years of age in January.  Here are some of the results:
54% of workers said they have less than $25,000 saved for retirement
24% have delayed their retirement in the past year
27% of workers said they have less than $1000 saved
43% have less than $10,000 saved for retirement

Depending solely on other people for your investment decisions can mean dying a slow death.
Over the last few decades, the switch from employer-managed pension plans to self-managed retirement accounts (i.e., IRAs and 401k’s) has turned each person into his or her own pension fund manager.

By Hollis Colquhoun Women account for over 80% of consumer spending, and at the same time elderly women make up over 80% of this country's impoverished. How can that be possible?
As a consumer buyer, it appears as though women are spending their money to satisfy the immediate needs of the household. According to Mindshare/Ogilvy & Mather, women's spending accounts for: