The Writer’s Coin

I just got back from the beautiful island of Aruba (that’s a picture from our room) and I learned a few things about myself and about money on the trip. Aruba is a tourist destination and earns more than half its GDP thanks to it. It’s because of this that things are so expensive if […]

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I’ve talked and thought about alternative income and diversifying my income for a long time but I’ve never really counted up all the pennies to see how much I’ve been making. It was just such an “insignificant” amount that I never gave it much thought.
Then last month I saw some actual amounts of money in […]

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We’ve all heard the stories out there of companies profiting even when they haven’t done their job well, especially CEOs. Well, I thought I had heard it all until I read this article. It talks about Washington Mutual and how the board has approved a new way of measuring the performance of the CEO to […]

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I’ve always believed that word of mouth was the best way to learn about new books that I might like to read. That’s why I use Amazon so much—I love seeing what lists people have that include books I’ve enjoyed. It’s fun and it exposes me to new books I never would’ve gotten into (like […]

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Recently I’ve been quitting a lot of books and it’s made me think about the value of reading a “bad” book vs. just putting it away and picking up one you potentially might like.
I used to read through any book no matter what, but I think since I realized that books are infinite and you […]

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About a year ago when I was looking for a new job, I started thinking about how I’d like to transition from my old job to the new one (when I got it). I was talking to M about it and I mentioned how I had always meant to live at this beach house my […]

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I was always the kid in school that didn’t like working in groups. I liked doing things my way and I liked getting them done on my own. And even today I still do: part of my always feels like my way is the best way and so why have anyone else’s opinion in there […]

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My daily readings usually include MSN Money and Yahoo Finance, with the occasional romp over at USA Today’s Money page and Morningstar. And those places usually offer the type of commonsense advice I agree with. Sometimes they’ll put something up that’s a little different or new, but for the most part I agree with the […]

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This was one of the first books I ever read about investing way back in the day and it was one of the things that made me think, “Wait a minute, I can and should invest in stocks.” So I recently decided to re-read it and it’s still a great book. Some of the advice […]

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I’ve written a lot recently about my new job, but for those of you who aren’t familiar with the story I got a new job about a month ago in a completely different field from what I went to school for and from what I was working in before.
The new job is in the financial […]

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