Month of Cool Personal Finance Links - February

Every month I’m going to start compiling all the cool personal finance links I find so I can share it with you all on the last day of each and every month. I’m going to do it much like Charles Kirk (thekirkreport.com) does his almost daily links, but add a little more commentary. (this month will be short since I only thought to do it recently, and next month will be short because we’ll be on our honeymoon for the first half of the month)

• The new $5 bill has all this crazy anti-counterfeit goodness!
• Check out this awesome interactive stock market history graph from Fortune.
• Reader’s Digest estimates that the government wastes $1 trillion each year and wants the same transparency of the government as we expect from private companies. I like it.
• Shhhh! Don’t tell anyone else but banks have been secretly borrowing billions from the Fed. Shhhh it’s a secret!
• Stanford will be tuition-free for students whose families earn under $100,000 annually. Room and board will be free if they earn under $60,000 annually, this is amazing.
• I’ve been reading a lot of freelancer blogs lately and this post about youth and entrepreneurship by Jarkko Laine is great. “The school system had taught me to get a job rather than build jobs.” Challenge your thinking and what you’re doing to see if you are on the right path for you or the right path for someone else. For many, high school prepared them for college and college prepared them for a job… but that may not be the right path for you.
• Great transcript of a recent Q&A with Warren Buffett at Emory and UT Austin. Great gems in there about a lot of things, including diversification, index funds, etc.
• This is unrelated to personal finance but still great, it’s 100 photographs that changed the world and starts off with a picture of Anne Frank.

That’s it for this month!