Welcome to the end of the week and another edition of Happy Hour! Just sit back, relax, and enjoy your end of the week roundup of all things interesting in the land of money.
Fall of The PC?
The Death of the PC has reached dramatic proportions. It’s not that the PC is dead, the tablets (and too a lesser degree smartphones) are what the average consumer wanted all along. It just took awhile to shrink the parts.
Years ago, I’m talking around 1996, the PC was an overpriced, overpowered word processor for most people. Parents could bring work home, kids could write reports, play a few games, but that was it. Continue Reading…
H&R Block is one of the world’s largest tax service providers with offices all over the country. The H&R Block at Home tax software is the online version of sitting down with one of their tax pros. Now you can get your tax return done without ever leaving your house.
Index-based ETFs and index funds are popular choices for investors these days. The low costs and simplicity are a big selling points. Not to mention the fund marketing blitz reminding us how often actively managed funds fail to beat the S&P 500 index. But do you know how that underlying index works? Is it built to be a good investment strategy? Or should alternative index weighting methods be used?
We just ended the biggest instant gratification decade of our lives. Every financial borrowing tool was built to feed our immediate wants, if we paid for it later. Literally.