Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Investing on May 1st, 2008
Here’s a neat little article on something I had never heard of until yesterday. Apparently, the SEC is going to announce (on May 14) how companies will have to report their financials in XBRL language. That means that all the data will be organized and labeled so that investors (or anyone, really) can organize, play [...]
Posted in Investing, Money and Relationships on Apr 9th, 2008
I was reading a post by JD over at Get Rich Slowly yesterday that got me thinking about the way I build my savings. Right now I put in a monthly amount into a general savings pile in my ING account. Any extra money laying around goes into that pile, and I’m hoping that [...]
Posted in Investing on Mar 15th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Investing on Mar 14th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Investing on Feb 25th, 2008
Trent over at The Simple Dollar wrote a post on index funds the other day and I felt compelled to add my two cents in the comments section. I found I had more to say about them and how great I think they are so I’ve decided to write a whole post about them here.
First [...]
Slate makes a good point in this article about what people are going to do with their rebate checks. I guess people are saying that they will be saving that money or using it on essential items. The experts (and history) beg to differ with that one—most Americans will treat like free money and blow [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Investing on Feb 7th, 2008
How we got here: I had seen this book mentioned somewhere a long time ago and forgot all about it. Then a friend of mine lent it to me and when I saw the author’s name, I knew I had to read it. Roger Lowenstein is the author of the superb biography, Buffett: The Making [...]
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, [...]
Posted in Investing on Jan 25th, 2008
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 [...]
Last week I wrote about how the markets have got me nervous. My reasons aren’t because my investments are losing value, it’s because I’m not sure how to best take advantage of the drop.
It’s not easy seeing your hard-earned, hard-saved money getting lobbed off at the head, but that’s just the nature of the beast. [...]
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