David Crowder

This is the last week of the Brexit debates before the long awaited referendum finally happens. Polls still show the two camps for leave and remain at neck and neck. If the leave camp does manage to edge out even…

(Please note: Crowdfunder’s webpage is currently inactive, and the business may be defunct. For more reviews, consider browsing our list of the top 10 gold IRA companies in America.)  Crowdfunding, or Peer to Peer investing, has finally taken a major…

The first weeks of June have proven it is too early to count gold out of its long term bull market. This week, gold prices continued their relentless recovery and reached as high as $1,287 per ounce. The reasons for…

After weeks of chatter about an imminent rate increase from the Federal Reserve, last Friday’s jobs report has kicked the immediate prospects of one further down the road. The market had looked for 164,000 new jobs in growth and instead saw…

Many observers of the student lending marketplace have noted that there are problems with the system for getting money to people who want to further their education. SoFi is a company that is doing more than just talking about the…

The Federal Reserve Sabre Rattling for an Interest Rate Hike Continues Inflation fears appear to have finally goaded the Fed towards action for upcoming interest rate meetings. The signs are everywhere. Oil has notched its longest string of monthly gains…

Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) Funds attempt to match the progress of the underlying stock market indices for each fund. It should not come as a great surprise to investors that if the stock markets are down in general, these funds…

Most Peer to Peer lenders, and traditional lenders in general, look to credit scores, income, and employment as their primary means of determining whether or not to give you a loan. There is a relatively new disrupting company in this P2P…

(Please note: Able Lending’s webpage is currently inactive, and the business may be defunct. For more reviews, consider browsing our list of the top 10 gold IRA companies in America.)  The element that makes this industry so very exciting is…

When you look at the amount of money that early investing in Venture Capital has made over the last 30 years, it will sicken you if you missed out like the overwhelming majority of investors. At an astonishing 21.29% average…

Yodlee has been around ten years now, making it the undisputed grandfather of the personal financial software and apps out there. This is its great advantage, since it has been first in the space, it secured some of the best…

Quicken Intro and Background Quicken has always been the legendary gold standard of personal financial management apps. They maintain this status in part because every year the software developer (formerly Intuit) releases an updated version with at least a few…

(Note: Personal Capital is now known as “Empower”. You can read more about the company’s rebrand here.) There are many different services available today that help you to manage your personal financial empire, but few of them do this as well…

Among the various peer to peer lending outfits in the U.S., Prosper.com turns out to be the very first one in the country. This lending company is not so much a bank as it is a matchmaking service. The organization matches…

RealCrowd is on a mission to put online investors together with commercial real estate that is actually professionally managed. Read on to see how and how well they achieve their objectives in this goal. RealCrowd Intro & Background The idea…

Eventually you had to figure some Wall Street investor types would catch on to the revolution that has been ongoing in Peer to Peer Lending and crowdfunding and jump on the proverbial bandwagon. That happened back in April 2010 with…