Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
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 [...]
I normally don’t recommend any articles from The Motley Fool (they are mostly glorified infomercials for their products. Entertaining, sure, but still just looking to sell you on things), but this one actually brings up a good point.
It’s probably the number one reason why people lose money in the stock market: the stock price has [...]
According to this Bankrate poll, people are very confused when it comes to investing.
As well they should—there is a lot of information out there, and a lot of it is terrible. I went through some growing pains to learn what I’ve learned and I think that’s what keeps a lot of people away: it makes [...]
It really shouldn’t be one vs. the other, which is what this Q & A addresses.
I have both and I just love the flexibility of the Roth. I run it through Scottrade and I’m very happy with my options there. Eventually I want to move it to Vanguard, but I need to have more money [...]
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