Keeping your budget in order is easier on the web

With so much focus on money, finances and personal accountability, individuals need sphisticated ways to manage both their money and their time. From online brokerage accounts to credit cards and bank accounts, retirement accounts, 401Ks and the like, keeping track of where your is coming from and going to is a necessity.

The old fashioned paper budget and ledger has gone the way of the pocket calculator and slide rule. More and more people are turning to tools on the web to track and quantify their cash and investments.

One such web tool is a site called Mint, which is a free online service which allows you to add all of your important financial information into your own secure, customizable platform.

Users enter their bank account information, plus information on loans, credit cards, home equity lines, and other regularly-used accounts, such as a stock account.

Then, once it's all set up, the software pulls all the information together and keeps it updated, employing bank-level security so your information doesn't fall into the wrong hands.

The site offers a high level of reliability and a one-click experience to see where and how your money is being employed. There are additional tools, such as auto-generated charts of where your money is being spent, and a budget app that can be adjusted to suit a personal preference.

Spending too much on gas, or clothes? Set up the budget to limit those expenses and put more money into other areas.

Mint is a great free solution designed to assist everyone in managing their finances.

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Unlike many blogs, this one is all about money, investing, saving and having enough to live a full and rewarding life.

Most people spend their entire lives worrying about money and never do what it takes to have the money they really need. The middle class, especially in America and Western European countries, has been marginalized by major corporations, governments and a monstrosity of media which keeps the middle class not in the middle, but near the bottom of the social hierarchy.

But the world is changing. Individuals are being empowered to take back control of their lives, get off the 9-5 (or longer) treadmill, turn away debt and act responsibly - something corporations, the media and politicians do not.

Change, however, is gradual, incremental and often barely noticeable. People are always looking for the grand gesture, the sweeping movement, the revolutionary idea, though that is seldom the way things work. Every day the government-corporate-media (Govcordia) tells us that this-or-that cause will produce this-or-that effect, as though the world can be filtered down into easily-digestible chunks of data by which we can plan our lives.

Nothing could be further than the truth. What Govcordia wants is to keep the middle class in a constant struggle, and they've done a great job of it over the years. Rare is the case of people rising from modest means to the top of the heap. What's common is for people to remain working for 45 years at some job or other, accumulate assets - and a boatload of debt - and retire quietly.

If that's how you want to live your life, then stop right here... this is not for you. But, if you want to live a rewarding and meaningful life and reject the ordinary and the commonplace, then get ready for change.

What you can expect from this blog is something out of the ordinary, not the conventional wisdom from Govcordia, but radical thinking from emerging experts in fields of personal finance, politics, ecology and management.

The days of big government, big corporations and big media are coming to an end. Welcome to the world of self-government, home business and alternative media. It all starts here.