Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Investing on Oct 2nd, 2008
A lot of people are stressing out over their investments right now and they want to do something, anything about it. Well, the best advice is probably to do nothing—but that doesn’t help to scratch that itch, so you can do things like check on your asset allocation to make sure everything is where it [...]
Posted in Financial statements, Investing, Sports, Stocks on Jul 25th, 2008
I’ve talked about trying to create a series of good analogies between sports and investing before. The reason why I think it’s such a great idea is because it would open the doors to what is one of the most accessible ways for people to build long-term wealth — the stock market. But going through [...]
Posted in Investing on Jul 17th, 2008
First of all, let me remind everyone that I am a Warren Buffet disciple when it comes to investing — I believe that, when it comes to individual stock investing, what matters is the long term performance of a company. I am not a trader: I’m not interested in making a quick buck or in [...]
Last year my future in-laws decided to take M and I on a trip to Aruba and I was thrilled. But my father-in-law really wanted to do some scuba diving and M was already certified, so they asked me if I was interested. I had never done anything like it but decided it would be [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Finance on Jan 16th, 2008
A lot of people out there are scared away from learning about finances or investing. I understand, it’s all very complicated and the people on TV yelling and screaming about the markets and P/E ratios and earnings and so on don’t do anything to help.
There is so much information out there and so many “experts” [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Investing on Jan 10th, 2008
As a writer, I find that one of the best ways of explaining new things to people is with analogies (you know, “the car is fast like a bullet” or “you are such a monkey.”).
I’ve been going back and rereading some basic investment information to get me back into stock mode after just sitting back [...]
One of my favorite authors/people/writers has another new one out, this time an article in Portfolio magazine called “The Evolution of an Investor.”
It’s a really interesting profile of a guy named Blaine Lourd and how he went from Wall Street trader to joining a cult-like organization called DFA.
As all Lewis pieces, it’s very interesting and [...]
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