These are the top 15 blogs we found insightful and truly helpful to us this past year, and will no doubt prove to be excellent resources in 2016.
15. Bargaineering
Bargaineering, is about much more than where to find the best deals. The blog takes you through banking, saving, investing and many other areas of finance that will help you save money. The site also has an ongoing video series that explains some the intricacies of credit cards, all the way down to how to the basics of picking a stock broker.
14. PT Money
Simple and to the point: this a good way to describe PT Money. The blog gives advice on financial services like banking and credit cards, and also puts out interesting articles on a wide variety of topics, all geared to saving you more money. Also, the blog doesn’t discriminate, there are articles that only someone who has spent a lot of time learning about their personal finances will find useful, and articles that are accessible to even the most novice people breaking in.
13. One Cent at a Time
The beauty of One Cent at a Time is that it can walk you through being a beginner and understanding almost nothing, to helping hone your skills once you’ve been at for years, and you really don’t have to leave the site. The site takes a bit of an old school approach to finances, but the old school stuck around long enough to become old because it works. For anyone of any income or experience level this site can help you keep better track of your money.
12. Zero Hedge
Zero Hedge isn’t so much of a personal blog as much as it is a financial news commentator. It’s not something beginners in the financial world will likely find all that exciting, but it biting criticism of much of the problems the world faces today, and the lack luster solutions proposed by policy makers. The content starts away from fiancee often, but the bulk of it stays in that sphere, and is interesting, alluring, and penetrating.
11. Freakonomics
You’ve probably heard of the mega best-seller Freakonomics books, and you should definitely check out the blog. These posts and videos and podcasts won’t give you any advice on how to build your portfolio, but they will change the way you think about the world. Taking everything from exercise, to having children, to cheeseburgers and putting an economic spin on it is exactly the kind of thing you should be doing when you’re thinking about your own finances, and the guys at Freakonomics do it better than anyone else.
10. Calculated Risk
Calculated Risk takes ridiculous, far reaching concepts that stretch way out to the stratosphere of human understanding and distill them into 800 word posts with a chart. So few blogs have a grasp on what it takes to help people understand what only a financial professional or economist would, but Calculated risk does just that.
9. Money Talks News
Money Talk News is massive. Almost every aspect of a person’s finances has been written about, re-written about, and then covered from five more angles. For two decades MTN has been a kind of one stop shop for almost everything you’d want to learn about finances.
8. The Consumerist
Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes the stories are good, sometimes they’re miserable. The Consumerist is a mixed bag, all of its parts put together make the best blog of 2015. Originally a consumer advocacy site, the Consumerist has recently become of a analyst for all things that affect consumers. It’s deliciously snarky, always pays attention to get things right, and will make all of it readers smarter, more educated consumers. You’re never wasting time when you’re reading The Consumerist.
7. Everything Finance
Everything Fiance covers….well, everything finance. Where many blogs fail, Everything Finance picks up the slack. There are dedicated sections to careers, and work, to investing and breaking free from debt, and just about everything in between. The writing is informative, the website is beautiful, the news is relevant, and the tips are helpful.
6. Felix Salmon
Felix Salmon has bounced around some of the best known publications for a while now. He hosts Slate’s Money Podcast, and this blog has his work for various publications stretching back for years. This site is mostly links to his work other places on the internet, but Salmons insight and understanding are second to none. He picks topics usually fly over the heads of many people in the media or the blogosphere.
5. Wise Bread
Wise Bread covers a ton of content, all of it relating to finance, but not in a way that feel invasive. Instead of a finance blog that masquerades as a lifestyle blog, or a lifestyle blog with some finance tips, WB is somewhere in the middle. It teaches you things you never knew about finance but never makes you feel like you’re learning something that you absolutely need to know. It subtly implants information while you read genuinely enjoyable material collected from a huge supply of writers with interesting things to teach you
4. The Krazy Coupon Lady
While maybe not technically a finance blog, The Krazy Coupon Lady will absolutely save you money. There is just simply no better website to help people find coupons, great deals, or other money saving tricks than this blog. She writes like you’re sitting next to her, and she’s just excited to tell you about all the money she has saved. Invariably, this gets you excited too.
3. Moneyning
With a no nonsense, yet very entertaining voice, Moneyning takes care to provide you with information that you don’t already know. That might sound silly, but so many blogs rehash information with their own little twist, or with a tiny new piece of information they found on some other blog. This is is not the case at Moneyning. Everything is fresh. If you find a fact of figure that you already know in an article on Moneyning, cherish that moment because you can be sure that it won’t happen often.
2. Money Crashers
With nearly 80,000 subscribers and a seemingly endless pool of interesting and informative articles, Money Crashers has been one of the best finance blogs on the internet for some time now. You never see a headline that looks like it’s there just to fill space, and clickbait is replaced by just genuinely important information you’ll want to read condensed into a title.
1. Free Exchange
The Economist has been a gold standard in writing, news gathering, and interesting information for what feels like forever. It’s rare for old institutions (remember, the Economist was founded the same year the Oregon Trail was) adapt to the online medium well, but The Economists Blog Free Exchange is some of the best writing on the internet about any subject. It covers finance with the same diligence and care that the Economist has covered everything in it’s nearly 200 year history.
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