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    Tuesday, December 4, 2007 The Mortgage Bailout Plan Stinks! (4 clicks)
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December 4, 2007 at 11:10 am ET This was in yesterday’s WSJ (emphasis mine):
The subprime sales pitch sometimes was fueled with faxes and emails from lenders to brokers touting easier qualification for borrowers and attractive payouts for mortgage brokers who brought in business. One of the biggest weapons: a compensation structure that rewarded brokers for persuading borrowers to take a loan with [...] ... (more) Finally Reached a Milestone! (1 click)
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December 4, 2007 at 10:28 am ET Sometime early this morning AllFinancialMatters received its 1,000,000th hit!
I moved from my old blog platform to this Wordpress platform on August 26, 2005. I also started over with a fresh traffic counter on that day. That means it took 830 days to reach 1,000,000 hits (an average of 1,205 hits per day). [...] ... (more) Full Feeds = Less Comments? (2 clicks)
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December 4, 2007 at 12:49 am ET One thing I have noticed since changing from partial to full feeds is the number of comments has dropped. My theory is that since readers no longer have to actually visit my blog in order to finish reading a post, they’re less likely to leave a comment. Of course, this could just mean [...] ... (more) From AllFinancialMatters - view blog entries - visit this blog
December 4, 2007 at 12:49 am ET One thing I have noticed since changing from partial to full feeds is the number of comments has dropped. My theory is that since readers no longer have to actually visit my blog in order to finish reading a post, they’re less likely to leave a comment. Of course, this could just mean [...] ... (more) Monday, December 3, 2007 From AllFinancialMatters - view blog entries - visit this blog
December 3, 2007 at 11:59 pm ET Bankergirl has some tips on how to improve your credit score. Take a wild guess as to those who usually have the highest scores. They are typically:
Married (don’t know why this is)
Over age 40
Have fewer than four credit cards
Use credit cards regularly and payoff balances monthly
Own a home and have [...] ... (more) From AllFinancialMatters - view blog entries - visit this blog
December 3, 2007 at 5:00 pm ET Here’s a link to the complete text of Hank Paulson’s remarks regarding the mortgage markets. Here’s some of the highlights along with my thoughts:
And as I have said before, the housing market downturn is the biggest challenge to our economy. When home foreclosures spike, the damage is not limited only to those who lose [...] ... (more) From AllFinancialMatters - view blog entries - visit this blog
December 3, 2007 at 4:04 pm ET First off, here’s a must read piece from the latest issue of Fortune: Lebron Inc. - The building of a billion-dollar athlete. After reading the article, I have a lot more respect for LeBron James. He’s a very smart young man! I like the fact that he’s using his on-court talent to [...] ... (more) Question of the Day - Holiday Budget Busters (4 clicks)
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December 3, 2007 at 2:59 pm ET Here’s today’s question of the day:
Where do you typically blow the budget (assuming you do blow the budget) during the holidays?
I would have to say for us, it’s usually in the food category. We buy too many specialty items during this time of year usually because we make too many trips to the store! [...] ... (more) From AllFinancialMatters - view blog entries - visit this blog
December 3, 2007 at 12:38 pm ET I saw this in a recent issue of Fortune and thought I’d share it with you. For a mere $5,000, you can buy that special man in your life this:
It’s a leather and lucite trunk with 40 Polo shirts. I can think of better ways to spend $5,000! ... (more) From AllFinancialMatters - view blog entries - visit this blog
December 3, 2007 at 11:50 am ET Here’s a quick look at some of the happenings in MoneyBlogNetwork and beyond:
Here’s Jim’s Beware Hindsight in Investing Strategies, which was a reply to my post last week on the Total Market Index.
Nickel highlights a Ric Edelman piece titled ... (more) From AllFinancialMatters - view blog entries - visit this blog
December 3, 2007 at 12:56 am ET As promised, here’s my follow-up to last week’s post, Total Market Index vs. Sector Investing. In that post, I mentioned that a spin on investing in the Dow Jones Total Market Index (TMI) would be to buy equal allocations of the ten sectors that make up the TMI and rebalance them annually. I [...] ... (more) Friday, November 30, 2007 Will Freezing Subprime Mortgage Rates Help? (7 clicks)
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November 30, 2007 at 11:39 am ET I’m skeptical that freezing subprime mortgage rates is the answer to our subprime mortgage mess.
But freezing mortgage rates is exactly what the government and financial institutions are about to do, according to this front page article ($) in today’s Wall Street Journal. Here’s some of the highlights from the article:
Details of the plan, which [...] ... (more) Thursday, November 29, 2007 The Real Key to Acheiving Your Goals (5 clicks)
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November 29, 2007 at 3:56 pm ET It's easy to turn your dreams into goals on paper, but you're much more likely to acheive those goals--and be satisfied when you do--if they reflect your true values. ... (more) Question of the Day - Paying for College (2 clicks)
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November 29, 2007 at 2:09 pm ET From Some Colleges Cut, Eliminate Student Debt ($) in today’s Wall Street Journal comes this question of the day:
Should there be a minimum payout requirement for colleges and university endowments?
The article gives an example:
Amherst College, for instance, spent 4.6% of its $1.34 billion endowment in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2006. That is the [...] ... (more) Wednesday, November 28, 2007 From AllFinancialMatters - view blog entries - visit this blog
November 28, 2007 at 3:50 pm ET I just received an email from a PR person for NeatReceipts asking me to mention a promotion they are running. Some of you may remember the NeatReceipts giveaway I held on several months ago. Anyway, each week between now and Christmas, NeatReceipts is going to give away $1,000 to one lucky winner. [...] ... (more) Total Market Index vs. Sector Investing (5 clicks)
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November 28, 2007 at 2:34 pm ET Take a look at the graphic below, which is the sector allocation of the iShares DJ Total Market Index Fund (IYY):
Notice anything significant about that allocation? I’ll give you a hint: it’s the fact that over 17% of the fund is allocated to the financial sector. Unfortunately, financial stocks have been hammered this [...] ... (more) Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Merrill Lynch is Full of Bull… (2 clicks)
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November 27, 2007 at 11:51 pm ET Flipping through the WSJ tonight, I came across a full-page ad for Merrill Lynch (page A7 in the paper if you’re interested). The ad says this:
In 1915, Charlie Merrill said,
“The interests of our clients always come first.”
Today we make the same
unwavering
declaration:
The interests of our clients always come first.
Then, further down the page is this [...] ... (more) From AllFinancialMatters - view blog entries - visit this blog
November 27, 2007 at 3:15 pm ET Okay, I finally got around to installing the “Share This” plugin, which can be seen at the bottom of every post. It’s a cool little tool that will allow you to share any posts that you think are worth sharing (it’s also a great way that you can help me grow my blog).
The [...] ... (more) How the Heck Did This Woman Get a Mortgage? (61 clicks)
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November 27, 2007 at 1:36 pm ET From Citigroup Feels Heat To Modify Mortgages ($) in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal:
Ana Cecillia Marin, a 36-year-old single mother of three, owns a 20-year-old ranch house on a dusty, garbage-strewn acre in Palmdale, Calif. She says she earns $34,000 a year managing flower sales at a Los Angeles food store and selling clothes on the [...] ... (more) From AllFinancialMatters - view blog entries - visit this blog
November 27, 2007 at 12:01 pm ET That’s a chart of this year’s performance of the Dow Jones Bank Index, which is a wieghted index of 88 banks. Looking at the chart, it appears that 2007 is going to be a horrible year for bank stocks.
Consider this:
Of the 86 remaining banks* in the Dow Jones Bank Sector Index, 80 [...] ... (more) From AllFinancialMatters - view blog entries - visit this blog
November 27, 2007 at 12:59 am ET Taking a week off put me slightly behind on my roundup schedule. Anyway, here’s a short roundup of the MoneyBlogNetwork happenings over the past week:
Nickel renews his distaste Dish Network.
Jim reviews 100 Minds That Made the Market.
Speaking of reviews, Flexo reviews Russell Bailyn’s Navigating the Financial Blogosphere. - I received a copy of [...] ... (more) Monday, November 26, 2007 Why Companies Use Reverse Stock Splits (1 click)
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November 26, 2007 at 4:58 pm ET While working on another post, I came across Doral Financial, a company whose stock was trading at $2.87 on December 29, 2006. Today it’s trading at $18.70. At first glance that looks like a stellar rate of return so far this year.
You would be wrong.
Why?
Because on August 17, 2007, with the stock trading [...] ... (more) Do You Know How To Work? (23 clicks)
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November 26, 2007 at 12:43 pm ET Ben's basic message is that "while almost everyone I know went to college, very few learned how to actually work -- i.e., how to give an honest day's labor for a paycheck." ... (more) From AllFinancialMatters - view blog entries - visit this blog
November 26, 2007 at 10:23 am ET I like old books. Even though some of the advice in Dale Carnegie’s How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (Affiliate Link) is dated (as you’ll see below) it amazes me how common sense never goes out of style.
Here’s Dale Carnegie’s 11 Principles for Managing Your Money:
Rule No. 1: Get the facts down [...] ... (more) I’m Baaaaack! (6 clicks)
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November 26, 2007 at 10:20 am ET It’s hard to believe that it has been a week since I last posted! Time flies!
We had a great Thanksgiving. My family started arriving on Wednesday afternoon. We had 17 people staying at our house (including my family). On Thanksgiving day we had 28 people in our house. It was [...] ... (more) Items 331 - 355 of 365
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