If you qualify you can claim the $8,00 first-time home buyer credit when you complete your 2008 income taxes, but most online software hasn't updated their programming yet. Here is what you need to do.
Look beyond the confines of your job or career and determine a vision and mission for your life. What kind of person do you want to be and what kind of effect do you want to have on the world?
Mighty Bargain Hunter tackles "verbal shock therapy." Some people respond to verbal beat-downs in the style of Suze Orman and Dave Ramsey. No, I do not agree that this "therapy" is effective in the long run. People with problems and addictions need support from their friends. Spending and debt is much more private than alcoholism, for example. If it weren't, if finance was an acceptable topic for discussion, it would be much easier for people to get the support they need. In the mean time, authors who yell at callers on television and the radio will thrive.
J.D. from Get Rich Slowly shares a question from a reader and solicits opinions from his readership. Here's the question: "Whenever I bring up anything financial... [my wife] gets very defensive and angry, and refuses to talk about it... Is there anything I can do to have an open dialogue with her about money matters without making her defensive?"
Free Money Finance interviewed the president of Equifax Personal Solutions about this identify theft protection product. Even after the interview, FMF is not convinced that this is a necessary product.