Diamonds in the Rough Roundup 1/31/2014

Looking forward to the Super Bowl in the cold.  Here are some enjoyable posts for the week:

Best Tax Software for 2014 by Mike Jelinek:  There is a lot of good tax prep software out there.  This post goes into a good amount of detail and tells you which one is the best.

Good Systems Can Make Your Finances Boring…And That’s a Good Thing by Planting Our Pennies:  This post gives a good example of the powerful effect of systems in personal finances.  If you don’t have systems in place, every day can be a hectic mumbo jumbo of bills and missed payments.

Poverty, Perpetuated by Control Your Cash:  The President spoke about a new account in his state of the union address called a myRA.  Despite sounding very gimmicky, looking at the details of this account shows that it is not really all that useful for the people it is marketed for.  This post does a great job dissecting it.

Thanks to the Carnival of Personal Finance for featuring my post!

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