Posted in social networking on May 14th, 2009
Viralogy has ranked me as the #10 blog on their list of top ten personal finance bloggers you’ve never heard of. The good news: someone out there is giving me props by putting me on their top-ten anything list. Sweet. Bad news: nobody’s heard of me. Which is OK if I had started this whole [...]
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Posted in Good Reads on May 14th, 2009
In case you didn’t know, there are at least two things that make up a great writer: read a lot and write a lot. There are other tips, but that’s not what today’s post is about. Today is about some of the great stuff I’ve been reading recently. These are all great articles and some [...]
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Posted in Investing on May 13th, 2009
Managing your own budget is pretty straightforward once you get the basics down: make more than you spend and go from there. But managing your own investments is a little trickier, especially once you’ve amassed a big chunk of money. At what point to you throw your arms up and say, “OK, this is too [...]
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Posted in Investing on May 12th, 2009
Last week I caught an article on Yahoo Finance titled Seven Ways to Simplify Your Investment Life. My favorite tip was #5: Jot Down Why You Own Each Investment. When it comes to picking individual stocks, I love hearing the “why” behind a specific choice. I like hearing these rationalizations and the thinking that went [...]
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