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From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogMarch 28, 2008 at 10:20 pm ET
I came across a pretty interesting blog recently- www.njrereport.com. It publishes news stories and examples of New Jersey homes being offered well below previous purchase or asking prices (which it refers to as "comp killers" ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogMarch 25, 2008 at 10:14 pm ET
So we all know that JP Morgan offered to buy Bear Stearns for $2 a share a week or so ago. And by now we also know that JP Morgan increased its bid to $10 ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 25, 2008 at 12:05 am ET
Today the government announced that people will be getting tax rebates. Unfortunately (fortunately?) my wife and I make too much to get one. It's kind of funny because we don't make that much more than ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 23, 2008 at 8:42 pm ET
Did you buy a diamond ring or other diamond jewelry somewhere in the 1994-2006 timeframe? (I did- got engaged during this period). Well, you may be eligible to receive a rebate from DeBeers, which recently ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 23, 2008 at 8:15 pm ET
So we just got an intra-meeting 75 basis point cut. I guess the Fed's job is to prop up the stock market now. I'm not a huge economics expert, nor do I really care one ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 21, 2008 at 11:40 am ET
By the way, I've been looking around for a while now, and currently I think my best option for investing short-term cash is the ING Direct Electric Orange checking account. If you'll recall, when I ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 21, 2008 at 11:02 am ET
I have to admit, it's a strange experience to log in and see my 401(k) balance squarely in the red. My total portfolio has lost 9.6% of its value sofar this year, with my small-cap ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 16, 2008 at 8:31 pm ET
I buy a ton of stuff off of Amazon.com. I've been using the site for about 10 years now and bought everything from books (my first purchase was "The Intelligent Investor" by Ben Graham) to ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 13, 2008 at 12:24 pm ET
I recently happened upon a paper written by Moody's as part of its "Global Financial Risk Perspectives" series entitled "Archaeology of the Crisis" where the rating agency attempted to "dig a little deeper" to discover ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 12, 2008 at 2:15 pm ET
A quick update on my down payment fund. It currently sits just north of $154,000. For those of you who have read some of my older posts, you'll recall I've been building this fund by ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 9, 2008 at 8:50 pm ET
So, I take some time off from posting for the new year and the market tanks.First of all, Happy New Year to all of my readers. I hope you were able to take some time ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogDecember 30, 2007 at 11:05 am ET
I came across Bespoke Investment Group's blog yesterday while surfing around the Interweb and found it interesting enough to recommend that you head over there and check it out. From what I've read, the company ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogDecember 17, 2007 at 7:34 pm ET
I read an interesting personal finance article by Jonathan Clements in the Wall Street Journal today. He talked about a bunch of ways to teach your kids about money. Now, I'm not going to ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogDecember 16, 2007 at 10:59 am ET
For those of you like me looking to maximize your 401(k) contribution for 2007, you most likely only have one paycheck left to do so so this is a quick reminder to make sure you've ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogDecember 13, 2007 at 10:12 pm ET
If you're like me, you're curious about what people make. Madame X over at "My Open Wallet" has a fantastic post where she asked her readers for details on their ages and incomes. A bunch ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogDecember 10, 2007 at 8:50 pm ET
I've been trying to talk about my view that home prices need to fall further, but seekingalpha.com did it better than I could. Check out this discussion of home prices. They argue that the price ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogDecember 8, 2007 at 11:01 pm ET
Investmenttools.com has some pretty interesting housing price graphs. One of them shows how many ounces of gold it has taken to buy the average house over the years.Another shows how many shares of the Dow ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogDecember 4, 2007 at 9:56 pm ET
I got a flyer in the mail from eTrade financial today, advertising the "complete savings account". It showed a chart that has become all too familiar to me as I've been shopping around for another ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogDecember 2, 2007 at 1:35 pm ET
You might have read about plans to prevent certain subprime mortgage rates from "resetting" to higher rates in the next few years in the papers lately. If you have, you fall into one of two ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 19, 2007 at 9:09 pm ET
Ok, so he doesn't format his excel spreadsheets very nicely, but hey I don't hold that against him. The guy wrote some of the most respected textbooks in the field of valuation/corporate finance. I'm talking ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 18, 2007 at 10:16 pm ET
Add Indian tourist sites to the list of places that won't accept dollars anymore. According to a recent ruling from the Indian Government, visitors will no longer be allowed to pay admission fees to places ... ( more)
From Watch Your Wallet - view blog entries - visit this blogNovember 17, 2007 at 9:52 pm ET
As promised, here are some more ideas (in no particular order) I had that I'm sure the financial analyst/hedge fund manager/business school student or other finance geek in your life would appreciate this holiday season. ... ( more)
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