James Surowiecki wrote a great piece for The New Yorker on how misaligned hedge-fund manager compensation is.

Quoted: The New Yorker

Determine your own FU point. The point at which your investments exceed your living expenses.

(it appears that the very useful Google Spreadsheet is not currently available - hope it comes back up later).

An exploration of what is required to reach your own personal crossover point.

Quoted: The crossover point is the point at which your investments begin to earn more money than the cost of your living expenses. The crossover point is usually reached by keeping your living expenses lower than your income and investing that amount for the long term.

This looks like a nice way to manage money. Friendly, personable, and dsicounted while its in beta.

Quoted: Hand-crafted web sites, pixels and text by Dan Cederholm.

Women's Personal Finance Blog has a great post on managing money which is not at all exclusive to women.

It's been a while since I've read anything frmo Reader's Digest (I think the last time was when my family used to take care of an old woman in Northern California). Anwyays, this is a reasonable article with some good advice on putting money away.

I've been exploring cash value life insurance recently and found this article to be quite helpful in explaining how it works to me.

Being rigorous about how you determine when to sell a stock is one of the most difficult and finicky investment decisions. This article discusses good ways of making it automatic.

"The Economist" did a bit of digging around the IKEA business and what they've found is not so heartening. This private company appears to be using non-profit status to obtain favorable tax exemption treatment while trap-doors in the corporate structure pay out exorbitant amounts of the money to the "IKEA group." Eek.