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    Friday, March 21, 2008 Other Index funds - the “middle” children (6 clicks)
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March 21, 2008 at 2:40 pm ET So as everyone knows by now, my main retirement fund is as well as my main investment fund are both funds that follow the S&P 500 index. But the truth is, I have money in other kinds of index funds as well. Thats why I refer to it plurally as “index funds” not [...] ... (more) Thursday, March 20, 2008 If debt was fat, America would be morbidly obese (10 clicks)
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March 20, 2008 at 11:36 am ET There was a character in Shakespeare named Polonius, for those of you that remember who said, in modern day terms “no credit needed.” America today runs on credit and unfortunately it has taken on a terrible terrible life of its own.
The first and most obvious piece of this Pandora’s puzzle is consumer debt, the [...] ... (more) From The Penny Saved - view blog entries - visit this blog
March 20, 2008 at 2:20 am ET I write my articles for the weekend during the week, so when I wrote my article on Jim Cramer little did I know that later that day he would talk about Bear Stearns on his program. It went a little bit like this:
Peter writes: “Should I be worried about Bear Stearns in terns of [...] ... (more) From The Penny Saved - view blog entries - visit this blog
March 20, 2008 at 2:17 am ET I write my articles for the weekend during the week, so when I wrote my article on Jim Cramer little did I know that later that day he would talk about Bear Stearns on his program. It went a little bit like this:
Peter writes: “Should I be worried about Bear Stearns in terns of [...] ... (more) Wednesday, March 19, 2008 From The Penny Saved - view blog entries - visit this blog
March 19, 2008 at 6:16 pm ET Bear Stearns employees 401k’s were literally loaded with Bear Stearns stock apparently. Here is one blurb about it from Report on Business:
Hot on their heels will likely come lawsuits on behalf of Bear Stearns’ employees. What makes this case interesting is the unusually high level of stock ownership by staff, who hold more than [...] ... (more) Visa Stock - the Visa Stock release results (4 clicks)
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March 19, 2008 at 11:30 am ET Visa Stock. Thats right, right now you can own it. Visa stock went on sales today for $44/share which is more than the expected $35-$42/share that was expected but you can hardly blame them for starting it a bit higher considering the hype that has surrounded the IPO.
So far Visa has raised a [...] ... (more) Interest Only ARM - The STD of Mortgages (5 clicks)
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March 19, 2008 at 9:49 am ET It may have seemed like a good idea at the time, but it you will pay for it long term.
Ah yes, the cancer that is Interest only ARMs. So for those of you who aren’t quite sure what it is:
An interest only ARM is an ARM (Adjustable Rate Mortgage) where for a set amount [...] ... (more) Tuesday, March 18, 2008 From The Penny Saved - view blog entries - visit this blog
March 18, 2008 at 12:49 pm ET Anyone try to buy some milk or gas in the past week? There is some bad news, and there is some worse news.
The bad news: you probably already know: its expensive as hell.
The worse news: its going to get more expensive.
The Fed is expected to announce another rate cut today to try to stop [...] ... (more) Sunday, March 16, 2008 From The Penny Saved - view blog entries - visit this blog
March 16, 2008 at 1:35 pm ET You can do it, but its not the best idea.
I have had a few readers mention Jim Cramer. “Have you seen Jim Cramer?” “What do you think of Mad Money?”
Yes, I have seen him, and yes I have read Mad Money. Let me just say this straight out, Jim Cramer is garbage. [...] ... (more) Saturday, March 15, 2008 From The Penny Saved - view blog entries - visit this blog
March 15, 2008 at 11:48 am ET I love setting goals. I have set all sorts of goals in my life, as I am sure you have too. I am talking about reasonable goals too…not “I am going to become a gigantic movie star, bodybuilder, and then become a governor of California and eventually run for president” kind of goals. [...] ... (more) Friday, March 14, 2008 From The Penny Saved - view blog entries - visit this blog
March 14, 2008 at 7:31 pm ET So I admittedly have a lead foot sometimes. The funny thing is I had only one speeding ticket in my life for going 8 over in the middle of nowhere in New Mexico. Who DOESNT speed in New Mexico? Anyway that was until recently. I got two tickets in ONE WEEK. [...] ... (more) From The Penny Saved - view blog entries - visit this blog
March 14, 2008 at 2:54 pm ET So, I have to say the contest has been both great and disappointing at the same time.
The disappointing:
5000+ visitors in the past two weeks, yet only 17 picture entries. Basically half of the minimum.
The great:
Most of the people that wrote in had great, touching stories. The people that did respond really really made [...] ... (more) Thursday, March 13, 2008 Baidu Stock Review (20 clicks)
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March 13, 2008 at 11:25 pm ET Baidu - the “google of china” as has been proclaimed by Lord knows how many experts lately is a hot hot topic of discussion so you know what that means….time to weigh in on it.
What is Baidu?
It is the leading search engine in China. Thats right, its not Google, Yahoo or anything else, its [...] ... (more) Networking (Career Tip #5) (2 clicks)
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March 13, 2008 at 9:48 am ET Networking is one of the most trite terms floating around right now, mostly due to social networking sites exploding. There is myspace, facebook, twitter, linked in etc etc. As much as I hate to use the word, its one of the most important things you can do for your career and your life. [...] ... (more) Southwest Airlines troubles - Stock Review (18 clicks)
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March 13, 2008 at 12:10 am ET I wrote a comment a long time ago on an investing blog about Southwest Airlines. I was praising them because of certain business practices. Well, somehow one of you sneaky astute readers got a hold of it to drill me on it because of the breaking news about their failed inspections. The [...] ... (more) Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Tax Audit Survival - Tax man cometh (5 clicks)
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March 12, 2008 at 2:08 pm ET Tax audits are sort of like root canals - you go every year and hope you don’t have to go through one. The difference is that at least a root canal is only one day of pain, a tax audit can be weeks of pain. The good news is that most of us [...] ... (more) From The Penny Saved - view blog entries - visit this blog
March 12, 2008 at 11:35 am ET I received an email yesterday from a financial adviser…and he was not happy:
Dear Eric,
Yes, thats right I know your real name. I came across your article “Credit counseling is fraud” and I am not sure what makes you think you have a right to give people financial advice on how to handle their money. [...] ... (more) Tuesday, March 11, 2008 From The Penny Saved - view blog entries - visit this blog
March 11, 2008 at 10:07 pm ET Recession investing seems to be the next most asked question I get in regards to recession next to 401k questions. The two are obviously completely linked but for the purpose of tonight I am going to tackle individual investing during a recession. I am going to take a general view here.
Generally all stock [...] ... (more) From The Penny Saved - view blog entries - visit this blog
March 11, 2008 at 5:09 pm ET Credit card week here at TPS has been fairly busy and so in my endless digging to defend you Ive come up with some extra things to watch out for. Your credit card is costing you money in ways you probably didn’t even realize. Thats right, that innocent little piece of plastic you’ve [...] ... (more) Monday, March 10, 2008 From The Penny Saved - view blog entries - visit this blog
March 10, 2008 at 6:51 pm ET A penny saved is a penny earned - we’ve all heard the phrase. There’s lots of variations on it too:
The Penny Saved is a penny earned
and some funny ones too:
A penny saved is a penny plus interest earned
A penny saved is a penny earned — and taxed.
Ok so the truth is, I don’t even [...] ... (more) Last day to enter credit card cut up contest (4 clicks)
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March 10, 2008 at 12:10 pm ET Today is the last day to submit your entry for the Credit Card Cutup Contest. On friday I will post the winners, as well as the video of myself cutting up my card, AND I will post what the surprise is, which I will give out TEN of….so get those entries in! ... (more) Saturday, March 8, 2008 From The Penny Saved - view blog entries - visit this blog
March 8, 2008 at 12:45 pm ET 401k Recession. Those two words are currently the most searched personal finance words and we can all understand why. There is the threat of recession looming and everyone wants to know, above all, “how is this going to affect me long term” which is most manifested in the ultimate long term investment - retirement accounts. [...] ... (more) Friday, March 7, 2008 From The Penny Saved - view blog entries - visit this blog
March 7, 2008 at 3:06 pm ET So finally we get to the payoff (literally). How do we ditch this debt that has grown after days, months, years of using the credit cards. There are a lot of theories out there on the best way to go about it, some of them great, some of them ok, and some of them terribe. [...] ... (more) Thursday, March 6, 2008 From The Penny Saved - view blog entries - visit this blog
March 6, 2008 at 12:55 pm ET If there was an adult version of sesame street it would have a feature: A is for auto which costs 600 a month, B is for budget something you probably don’t have.
So I heard on the radio the other day that of Americans with credit card debt 90% of them do not have a set [...] ... (more) Wednesday, March 5, 2008 From The Penny Saved - view blog entries - visit this blog
March 5, 2008 at 11:03 am ET This is a guest post from Debt Free Revolution, special thanks to her for taking the time to do this. I was going to wait until after the end of the credit card cut up contest but I have the flu so here it is:
Jesse asked me to do up a guest post since I [...] ... (more) Items 76 - 100 of 142
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