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Monday, July 7, 2008
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July 7, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
It’s summertime.  Do you know what that means?  It’s time to get in shape so you look hot on the beach!  Few things in life are as important as looking good in a bathing suit.  ... (more)

Sunday, July 6, 2008
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July 6, 2008 at 2:33 pm ET
Than’s to Lisa at Greener Pastures for including my post about logical fallacies in the financial media in this weeks Carnival of Personal Finance #159.  Some of my favorite posts of the carnival: How The Rich Spend Their ... (more)

Friday, July 4, 2008
Happy 4th Of July! (30 clicks)
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July 4, 2008 at 1:24 pm ET
Don’t forget to drink plenty of American beer! Most Commented Posts Top 4 Money Wasters In Your 20’s Is CPI Manipulated? Will The Falling Dollar Cause Inflation? The 8 Levels Of Passive Income Determine Your Risk Tolerance ... (more)

Thursday, July 3, 2008
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July 3, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
Plenty of people leave shared housing behind forever after college.  I was not one of them.  For several years, I lived in a few places with different roommates:  some good, some not so good.  The ... (more)

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
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July 2, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
I hate to budget.  Budgets seem restrictive to me.  It’s totally psychological, but for some reason the mere act of making a budget makes me feel like I’m depriving myself, and nobody likes being deprived:  ... (more)

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
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July 1, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
This post is in response to the personal finance confession project started by Are You Going To Be This Way The Rest Of The Time I Know You (long name).  I ran across it over ... (more)

Monday, June 30, 2008
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June 30, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
Last week, I wrote that from a modern portfolio theory perspective, stocks actually become more risky with time (Obi-Wan Kenobi was right).  Because even small differences in returns can have monumental consequences to the eventual size ... (more)

Friday, June 27, 2008
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June 27, 2008 at 9:26 pm ET
First off, let me announce that apparently I’m a “known spammer”.  A few weeks ago, a spammer sent out tens of thousands of spam emails from bogus email accounts using my domain.  Consequently, it looks like I’ve ... (more)

Thursday, June 26, 2008
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June 26, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
Do stocks get less risky with time?  That’s actually an interesting question and the answer, as with most things, is “it depends.”  For most of our investing lives, it’s been beat into our head by ... (more)

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
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June 25, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
Doing my usual rounds reading various personal finance blogs yesterday, I discovered the IRS has raised the business mileage deduction to 58.5 cents per mile, up 8 cents per gallon over the past year.   Obviously, ... (more)

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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June 24, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
Legendary value investor Benjamin Graham once said “You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right.”  Now more than ever, Benjamin Graham’s ... (more)

Monday, June 23, 2008
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June 23, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
According to the aptly named logicalfallacies.info, a logical fallacy is, quite simply, an error of reasoning.  Logical fallacies abound in everyday life:  everybody from college professors to politicians, businessmen, and scientists unknowingly commit these errors ... (more)

Friday, June 20, 2008
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June 20, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
Some of you may have heard of the Permanent Portfolio (PRPFX), an unorthodox mutual fund that bears more resemblance to a modern university endowment (such as the famous Yale endownment) than a traditional retail mutual ... (more)

Thursday, June 19, 2008
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June 19, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was the Pièce de résistance of the Clinton presidency and is likely to form the major part of his legacy.  While I have my problems with it (is ... (more)

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
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June 18, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
Government stimulus packages are big business, apparently.  Everybody wants a piece of that $50 billion pie and prostitutes are no exception.  The Moonlight Bunny Ranch in Carson City is offering the first 100 customers who ... (more)

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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June 17, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
Before the Fair Tax advocates attack me as being uninformed, first let me tell you I am actually for the Fair Tax, or at least some form of consumption tax instead of the current income ... (more)

Monday, June 16, 2008
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June 16, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
Ah, the age-old question:  do the rich pay their fair share in taxes?  Many liberals argue that they don’t, saying the rich owe their success to the efforts of the poor and middle class and ... (more)

Thursday, June 12, 2008
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June 12, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
I will be at the beach this weekend so no posts today or tomorrow.  I had hoped to have a few posts prepared to fill in the gaps but unfortunately, things have been extremely hectic ... (more)

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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June 11, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
I received an email the other day from Amazon.com (you probably did, too, if they have your email address) advertising their new site Warehousedeals.com.  Normally, I hit the delete button without even reading such advertisements, but ... (more)

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
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June 10, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
Every once in a while, the Dow takes a dive.  The latest example was last friday when the Dow fell 395 points, or about 3.13%, which was its largest drop in 15 months all the ... (more)

Monday, June 9, 2008
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June 9, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
The topic of passive income has been making the rounds lately.  More specifically,  the blogosphere has been debating the passivity of certain forms of income, such as blogging and real estate,  as opposed to dividends ... (more)

Friday, June 6, 2008
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June 6, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
This morning, I paid more than I ever have in my life for a gallon of gasoline:  $3.97.  It was a Chevron station.  8:27 AM eastern time.  It cost me $40 to fill up my ... (more)

Thursday, June 5, 2008
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June 5, 2008 at 12:55 am ET
I participated in two carnivals this week: Three Rules of Leveraged Investing appeared at carnival of personal finance #155 hosted at Moolanomy and do inflation numbers match your experience? appeared at carnival of money stories #62 hosted at Finance Gets ... (more)

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
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June 4, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
For centuries, mankind has been obsessed with shiny pieces of metal known as gold.  Even today, investors the globe over often flee to gold in times of economic instability because it has often functioned well ... (more)

Tuesday, June 3, 2008
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June 3, 2008 at 7:00 am ET
As a certified white person, I love multilingualism and one day aspire to speak at least 17 different languages, the more obscure the better.  French students are a dime a dozen, but how many people do ... (more)

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