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 Financial statements, Sports on Apr 28th, 2008
I was recently included in the Carnival of Personal Finance hosted over at Lazy Man and Money. The article of mine that was included was a piece I wrote on the similarities between financial statements and baseball statistics. Lazy and I will have a discussion on how important certain stats are, but that’s for another [...]
Posted in Financial statements, Sports on Apr 14th, 2008
So I’ve written before about my idea to churn out some kind of robust analogy between baseball statistics and financial statements. The reason is twofold: the analysis that baseball fans like myself do every day with baseball numbers is pretty involved—this isn’t simply looking at batting average and homeruns. It’s pretty sophisticated stuff and the [...]
Posted in Financial statements, Investing on Jan 15th, 2008
A long long time ago before I knew what I was doing with money or investing or even saving and budgeting, I read Peter Lynch’s Beating the Street and One up On Wall Street. Granted, this was a while ago, but I remember coming away from those books with a desperate need to learn how [...]
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