A Mini-Weekend Carnival: The Bernank Does The Twist

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1. Jon - Free Money Wisdom says

   September 24, 2011 at 7:47 pm

   Great round-up. Looking forward to reading some of your suggestions. Go check out my new post!

2. youngandthrifty says

   September 25, 2011 at 3:39 am

   Fantastic round up! Thanks for the inclusion 🙂

   I hope you have a great weekend, Kevin.

   I can’t believe its the end of September already. 🙁

3. My Own Advisor says

   September 25, 2011 at 7:58 am

   Thanks for the mention Kevin!

   Have a great weekend!

4. Investorz' Blog says

   September 25, 2011 at 9:36 am

   Hey Kevin! Just giving you the heads up. Yakezie seems to have been hacked!

   • Kevin says

     September 26, 2011 at 11:45 pm

     Wow, what happened!?

     • Kevin says

       September 26, 2011 at 11:49 pm

       Heh just headed over to read about it… I guess this is something we need to watch out for on the net!

5. Doctor Stock says

   September 26, 2011 at 12:02 am

   Great job… I visited several and left a few comments. I appreciate a list to go read once a week.

6. Georgia Hanson says

   September 26, 2011 at 3:31 am

   I love reading your blog, it’s a refreshingly honest look at a lot of areas of money and finance for a lot of people like myself trying to learn more about ways to make smarter decisions about my money. Thanks for explaining the Bernanke situation, helps a lot!

   My problem though is that I am very much a complete beginner when it comes to investing, and it’s been hard for me to find really good, straightforward lessons to begin investing. I read some great articles at Investopedia.com and Wealthlift.com, but other than that, it’s been hard to find good advice for beginners. What sites would you personally recommend for beginning investors? I have a lot of friends asking me the same thing now that I’ve begun learning, and I plan on sending your suggestions to my friends and family as well.

   Thank you in advance,
   Georgia

   • Kevin says

     September 26, 2011 at 11:38 pm

     Hi Georgia,

     Thanks for the kind comments, I appreciate it! For a blog focused on investing, the first place comes to mind is my fellow blogger Andrew Hallam. He is a great teacher and writer and he can teach you everything you need to know about investing for a beginner. Here are a few articles that can get you started:

     http://andrewhallam.com/2011/07/my-money/
     http://andrewhallam.com/2011/05/the-international-teachers-nine-steps-to-financial-freedom/
     http://andrewhallam.com/2011/05/make-sure-you-arent-falling-behind/
     http://andrewhallam.com/2011/03/lazy-investing-is-great-but-don%E2%80%99t-be-too-lazy/

     And my interview with him: http://www.investitwisely.com/meet-andrew-hallam-the-millionaire-teacher/

     I haven’t read it yet, but he recently published “Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School”: http://www.investitwisely.com/millionaire-teacher-the-nine-rules-of-wealth-you-should-have-learned-in-school/

     I’ve heard it’s a great read but I still have to find out for myself!

     Aside from that my fellow bloggers on the blogroll on the right all have a lot of great wisdom and advice to share! http://www.financialsamurai.com/ is founder of the http://yakezie.com/ and his motto is Honorable Personal Finance.

     I could say something good about each of the bloggers there, but I don’t want to overwhelm you!

     I hope this helps, and for articles on Invest It Wisely I am partial to these:

     http://www.investitwisely.com/how-much-of-your-paycheck-do-you-need-to-survive/
     http://www.investitwisely.com/living-to-100-and-beyond-building-an-infinite-portfolio/
     http://www.investitwisely.com/a-20-minute-guide-to-investing/ (from fellow blogger http://www.barbarafriedbergpersonalfinance.com/)

     Thanks for stopping by!

     • Georgia Hanson says

       September 27, 2011 at 12:25 am

       Thanks so much for replying so fast Kevin, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it.

       I’m sorry for asking so many questions, but I do have one more. After I started learning more about stocks, I joined a couple of investor communities like Bogleheads.org and Wealthlift.com that have people sharing stock investment ideas and answering questions about specific companies. I was wondering what you thought about people just starting out taking advice from these sites. I know there are experienced investors at these places, but is there any way to tell good advice from bad? Is it still ok just to read and learn from these posts, and just using common sense to tell if the advice is good? I know that probably sounds quite naive, but it has been a fun way to stay engaged and begin learning about stocks with other people at these sites.

       Let me know what you think.

       Georgia

       • Kevin says

         October 8, 2011 at 2:32 pm

         So sorry for the late reply, I must have missed this!

         I don’t think that it sounds naive at all. For someone starting out, you definitely have to take everything you read with a grain of salt. I think it’s a good thing to discuss and learn what other people are thinking, in fact, you can sometimes find out interesting stuff about your own company by checking out what people are saying on the stock discussion boards. Common sense definitely applies. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. At the same time we can all learn from each other by playing devil’s advocate and seeing what they have to say!