I have been on a crazy quest lately. Crazy because in reality the task is endless - finding other blogs about money. Many people are running blogs about finances on the internet, but some of them are utter rubbish. Honestly, if you follow some of the advice from these so called “experts” - or at least you’d hope someone blogging on a topic was an expert, but then again, who knows … but anyway, follow some of this advice and you’ll be broke in no time! It’s important to educate yourself about money, but make sure you’re getting your education from somewhere useful. Garbage in, garbage out, and all that.

I like this blog, which covers financial advice, personal finances, mortgage advice, financial news, investment advice, financial advice, mortgage rates predictions, financial planning, debt reduction, and how to be debt free. There are some very thoughful posts in here, and it’s rare that you find a money blog these days that actually says something you don’t already know. Well, it’s rare for me, and I am sure it’s rare for you, my discriminating reader, as well.

Some blogs try to cover to broad an area, and you find posts about basketball and baby poop interspersed with the financial articles. This one is not like that. It’s broad in the range of financial topics it tackles, but remain focused on money, finances, and investing.

Now, I hesitate to blow the horn too strongly on this little gem, because its early days yet, but I really like the style and variety of the posts about saving money, investing, reducing debt, paying off credit cards, and creative refinancing ideas on this blog, and I am looking forward to reading more. Intelligence is a rare commodity online, where writers have become utterly divorced from editors, and virtually all publishing is vanity publishing.

This blog has the potential to be not only intelligent, but amusing and entertaining at the same time. I’ll be watching this one closely, and here’s hoping the quality remains high over time. We can never get enough of quality writing online - the problem is finding it amongst all the rubbish.

This is a variation in strategy, a blog about saving money, reducing debt, creative refinancing ideas, interest rates predictions, refinancing for debt consolidation, mortgage refinancing, reducing expenses, reducing monthly payments, and vehicle refinancing. Normally, I prefer blogs about a variety of financial topics, because financial independence requires a strategy across all aspects of one’s financial life, so a blog about making money, saving money, investing money, refinancing advice, debt reduction, debt consolidation and financial independence is more likely to add value than a blog about one specific aspect of finances.

I am making an exception in this case, because the mortgage is usually the largest financial commitment a person makes, and managing a mortgage well can make the difference between financial independence and a lifetime of indentured slavery. Many of these posts are very educational, well-written, and easy to understand, and mortgage finance is one area where the average consumer could do with being much better educated - just look at the foreclosure rates!

You can follow several blogs using RSS feeds, which saves time and effort in surfing around the internet to each blog. In general, I would recommend keeping an eye on the blog at moneytalksabout.com/blog, because it does exactly that for you, and the posts which are made directly to the Money Talks blog itself, in between the syndicated posts, are always good value too.

I think that just about everyone could benefit from reading about making money, saving money, investing money, refinancing advice, debt reduction, debt consolidation and financial independence on a regular basis. Of course, money blogs are not the only way to gain this information, but they are convenient. Generally they are written in a readable style and break the information into small enough chunks that you don’t get overwhelmed.

Now, this handful of recommendations is hardly the definitive list of money blogs! In any case, new money blogs come into existence every day, and there will be hundreds of undiscovered gems available elsewhere. Go ahead and add a comment with the URL of your favorites, and why you like them. Together we can pinpoint the best money blogs to be reading today. I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

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