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From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 27, 2008 at 11:44 am ET
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The Simple Dollar: Trent shares his personal productivity tips and I see that we do some of the same things such as keeping a notebook handy for ideas. I also use a daily planner for my activities, exercise to try to wake up in the morning (afternoon exercises wipe me out!) and [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 26, 2008 at 9:33 am ET
Cartoon by Mark Fiore
There’s a general ongoing trend that has been simmering for quite sometime now. No, it’s not global warming though it’s also a global matter: it’s the “Buy America” trend, which you’ll note through stories like the following.
In this New York Times article, Overseas Investors Buy Aggressively in U.S, we see that [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 25, 2008 at 1:22 am ET
Just a quick reminder to let everyone know I’ll be hosting the Cavalcade of Risk #44 next week, Wednesday the 30th. If you’d like to submit any risk-related post (or anything about risk management) to this carnival, please have your submissions in by Monday, January 28.
You can submit via the Blog [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 24, 2008 at 2:36 pm ET
We have an interest in diversifying into real estate at some point in the future. More than a few friends and family members have gotten themselves involved one time or another as real estate investors, so there’s quite a pool of experience there to draw and hear from in case we ever get serious [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 23, 2008 at 3:01 pm ET
Sorry, I haven’t been that active with carnivals lately but that hasn’t stopped me from visiting them and catching a few articles of interest.
I really should get back to joining the carnival crowd at some point but I’ve been pretty short on time lately. We’ll see how it goes!
Anyway, here are some [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 21, 2008 at 11:59 pm ET
Here’s someone who’s really depressed.
Somehow I caught wind of a You Tube video that presents a massive rant by a young guy who reminded me somewhat of my bro-in-law in appearance and investment philosophy . Of course, I haven’t had the experience of witnessing my brother (as I would call my in-law) go [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 21, 2008 at 12:29 pm ET
Okay, this is the first time I’ve heard this type of thing, but apparently, today is the worst and most depressing day of the year.
Chuck it up to an agglomeration of factors that come together to make us feel like crap. There’s a guy named Dr. Cliff Arnall, a known researcher from [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 20, 2008 at 1:41 pm ET
As I constructed my reading list this week, I must say that there was one article that I thought deserved a bit more attention. Kudos to The Sun’s Financial Diary and Free Money Finance for bringing to light one of the single most important personal finance articles you should read, at least in my [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 18, 2008 at 5:08 pm ET
How to keep your moving costs down: first make sure you hire reputable movers!
A few weeks ago I had a writeup about the true costs of relocating. It turns out that it can cost upwards of $10,000 to move to a new town. When I moved from a 4 bedroom home in one [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 17, 2008 at 6:01 pm ET
What has Michael Jackson got to do with my money?
I’m in a retrospective mood, so I thought I’d share with you a couple of stories about my earliest experiences in the stock market. There’s been such a stark juxtaposition between some of these experiences that I thought it was well worth discussing. When [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 15, 2008 at 11:26 am ET
Our conservation plan is working. Our gas and electric bill is down 25% from last year!
We’ve recently found out how successful our plan was to replace a couple of ailing appliances that we inherited from the former owners of our home. Some couple of decades old, one appliance was our standard white fridge [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 14, 2008 at 8:07 pm ET
Peer to peer lending, person to person lending or social lending… everyone’s suddenly talking about it.
Everywhere I look around the blogosphere, there’s someone talking about the peer-to-peer lending industry. It’s an interesting space that has recently been picking up steam and getting noticed. With the credit markets under a lot of pressure these [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 13, 2008 at 1:44 pm ET
The Performancing Blog Awards for 2007 are over and the winners have been announced.
Congratulations to the Prosper blog for getting the nod for “Best Use of a Corporate Blog” — will we now be seeing many other corporate blogs following Prosper’s example? And congratulations to The Simple Dollar for winning [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 10, 2008 at 1:00 pm ET
My guest post for today has come to you by way of The Investor’s Journal, a blog written by Adam Freedman, a self-taught, young investor (in his early 20’s) who began investing in the stock market in 2005 upon opening an account with TD Ameritrade and who’s been studying and learning all he can about [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 9, 2008 at 4:50 pm ET
The northeastern U.S. had 70 degree weather while we had some cold storms recently. The skies have been crazy.
It’s been quite a bit of time since I did a carnival roundup. I was overwhelmed over the holidays and had to skip out on a lot of the carnival festivities for a while. [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 8, 2008 at 4:33 pm ET
I had a similar piece up at the Prosper Blog a while back but I wanted to touch on this topic further. Nothing earth-shatteringly new here, just common sense.
Photo by Mary Hetts
I get a lot of questions from readers who ask about what they should do about their mounting debt. A few of [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 7, 2008 at 1:36 pm ET
Right now, I’m pretty much out of sorts with a bad cold and with iffy weather upon us in the West Coast, I’m not going to take the risk of going outside. I was much more adventurous many years ago and exposed myself to the elements while recovering from the flu and instead caught [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 6, 2008 at 11:50 am ET
The 2007 Performancing Awards Reader’s Choice Poll is up and aching for your votes. Several blogs that I read on a regular basis are on this poll and I was quite pleased that one of my network buddies made it to the list as well: Lazy Man and Money.
I have a few [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 4, 2008 at 12:45 pm ET
Someone in my family is picking up stakes and moving his family clear across the world to be closer to his in-laws. He’s also doing it because he thinks he’ll have better job prospects in a new country. Somehow, I’m not too convinced that it’s a good move, especially since he and his [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 3, 2008 at 3:04 pm ET
What I’ve read recently seems to support my own observations: that most people aren’t doing too well with their stock market investments. There could be a variety of reasons for this, including:
Personal beliefs: The stock market is for gamblers!
Complicated behaviors: I’m having too much fun trading my bucks away. Buy high, sell low.
Lack [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 2, 2008 at 11:00 am ET
A stretch? Of course I’m pulling your leg with this post title, but if you read on, you may find some semblance of truth somewhere in there…
This is the time when everyone declares what their goals are for the coming year, so I figure I’ll join the crowd on this one. [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogJanuary 1, 2008 at 10:56 am ET
Photo by Pentoon
That says it all!
As we’ve reached a new milestone with the arrival of 2008, I’m happy to report that we’ve also passed our own milestone — the 600,000 visitors mark. I owe it all to you out there who stop by this site to read, comment, subscribe and link away. [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogDecember 31, 2007 at 5:03 pm ET
Who knew that we could actually save money while paying our bills? That’s not all — our bill-paying habits can actually be costing us some extra bucks if we’re not careful. So depending on what kind of bill pay system we’re using (if we have one at all!), we could be inadvertently contributing [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogDecember 31, 2007 at 12:18 am ET
Here’s a nice way to welcome in the New Year!
I was quite pleasantly surprised when Will Chen from Wise Bread wrote to inform me that they are holding a few contests that you may all be interested in joining. Wise Bread is promoting the launch of their new forum and they are doing so [...] ... ( more)
From The Digerati Life - view blog entries - visit this blogDecember 30, 2007 at 11:12 am ET
Looks like the peer-to-peer lending buzz is picking up steam!
Just a quick announcement to let everyone know that I am now a contributing blogger at the recently established Prosper Blog. You may want to check out the Prosper community and blog, which will be featuring regular content from several other personal finance [...] ... ( more)
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