Uber and Android Pay: 50% Off 10 Rides (Up to $5 Each Ride)

Uber and Android Pay are running a promotion offering 50% off 10 rides (up to $5 per ride) now through 10/15. No promo code required. The instructions they provide are pretty straightforward: Download and set up Android Pay on the Play … [Read the rest]

Warren Buffett’s Ground Rules: Shared Concepts with Low-Cost Index Funds

If you get in a debate about owning index funds, Warren Buffett will likely be invoked as an example of successful stock-picking. A recent book called Warren Buffett's Ground Rules: Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters of the World's … [Read the rest]

Open Enrollment Season: Maximizing Your Employee Benefits

As open enrollment season is around the corner, Morningstar offered up an 10-minute video interview with Christine Benz discussing tips on maximizing your employee benefits. (Is it just me, or does open enrollment too often seem to be a game of … [Read the rest]

Smarter Better Faster by Charles Duhigg: Book Review and Highlights

We'd all like to improve our productivity. Ideally, this would only involve downloading an app for 99 cents. :) Instead, Charles Duhigg did a lot of research in various areas and filtered out universal concepts that we can apply to our everyday … [Read the rest]

Citibank $400 Checking Account Bonus

Citibank has a $400 bonus offer for new checking account customers. Here are the highlights: To qualify for a $400 cash bonus, open a new consumer checking account in The Citibank Account Package by 10/31/16. Within 30 days from the date … [Read the rest]

Vanguard Complacency Check

Vanguard recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Vanguard 500 Index Fund, the first index fund available to individual investors. If you are like me and have a significant portion of your net worth in Vanguard products and services, you … [Read the rest]

Jack Bogle WSJ Interview Highlights (September 2016)

When Jack Bogle grants an interview, I sit down and take notes in case he drops something significant. Here is a link to his WSJ interview dated 9/2/2016 (paywall, use Google redirection if needed). Bogle estimates 2% annualized returns over … [Read the rest]

7 Essential Money Questions from The New York Times

The NY Times has a new essay called 7 Essential Money Questions Sure to Start a Conversation: What follows are the seven best queries that I could find that tend to stop people cold and get them to open up about whatever money they have and the … [Read the rest]

Free BJ’s Club Membership for American Express Cardholders (New Customers)

If you are an American Express cardholder, they have a promotion with BJ's Wholesale Clubs that will essentially net you a free 1-year membership if you are a new BJ's customer. The membership is discounted 50% down to $25, and then you also get a … [Read the rest]

Amazon Problems: Counterfeit Products

In my previous installment of Amazon Problems, I talked about fake Amazon product reviews. This time, I talk about fake products themselves. Thanks to lax Amazon policies, buyers now have to worry about whether their products are genuine or … [Read the rest]

Free 25 Hertz Gold Plus Points

Hertz has a Summer Bonus promotion with bonus points on your summer car rentals through 9/5/2016. Not much time left, but you can still get 25 free Hertz points just for registering with your Hertz Gold membership number. Register to earn up to … [Read the rest]

Schwab Target Date Index Funds Review

Charles Schwab has announced Schwab Target Index Funds, a new series of "all-in-one" target date mutual funds that are made up entirely of in-house Schwab Index ETFs and a Schwab cash mutual fund. Their existing offering Schwab Target Funds differs … [Read the rest]