The Writer’s Coin

So the FED cut its rates again because it’s trying to stimulate the economy and avoid a recession. Usually, that means stocks go up and the savings rate you get from high-interest banks like ING Direct go down (again).
For an interesting read on the FED and how our economy rewards risk taking without holding these [...]

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It’s a question we all ask ourselves when we find a new job or when we just fantasize about the new job we’d like to have: If I was making X, then I could afford to do X.
After getting my new job, I spent a lot of time trying to calculate my new paycheck (I [...]

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I am a fast clicker. Before a screen finishes loading I already have my mouse hovering over the area I’m going to click on. I like to work fast. The other day I was typing a blog idea into Yahoo Notepad and I hovered over the wrong button. Instead of clicking UPDATE I clicked on [...]

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I have a long-term goal of building a simple yet robust analogy that will tie investing with baseball. I’ve posted a few times on this (here and here) and I’m always keeping an eye out for more/better ways to tie the two together.
Why am I doing this? Well, it gives me something to blog about, [...]

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I’ve added a small ING ad at the top of each post today for a few reasons:
1. It’s another way of diversifying my income (first I need more traffic though)
2. I really believe that a high-yield savings account is the first step in taking control of your finances. It was for me and I [...]

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So I’m finally transferring my Roth IRA from Scottrade to Vanguard after finding out that you can have two Roths at two different brokerage houses. The reason I needed to know that before making the switch is because I want to hold on to my one B share of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) without having to [...]

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About six months ago I got a thing in the mail saying I could get a full year of The New Yorker for around $19, which I thought was great and felt I couldn’t turn it down. One reason was my newfound theory of knowing where you write, the other being that it would expose [...]

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The latest issue of Publisher’s Weekly has a nifty little piece by Will Leitch on the differences between blogging and writing a book.
Will Leitch is the editor for the hilarious sports blog Deadspin.com, where he writes about 7,000 words a day (ouch!). He’s also the author of several books, including the recently released God [...]

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[Recently, I've been considering starting a second blog, one based on my love of baseball and things like sabermetrics. Knowing the demands on my time for just one blog (this one), I decided to get some advice. So I went to Lazy Man from the über popular Lazy Man and Money and Lazy Man and [...]

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When I first started this site, it was hosted by Wordpress and I didn’t have the option to put ads on it. And to be honest, I never really thought about it. I started the blog thinking I would help others go through the financial awakening that I went through, and I hoped to learn [...]

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