Education
Online financial reading
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007Stuck at work, nothing to do? Want to read and bring your financial literacy up to a respectable level? Well try reading a few chapters of some of my favorite books. First off William Bernstein’s excellent website, The Efficient Frontier, has the first chapter of his great book, “The Four Pillars of Investing” available for [...]
Personal Finance Carnivals
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007I must apologize for the lack of articles in recent days, I have been extremely busy with work and other outside projects; there will be more stuff coming up soon, so stay tuned!
To hold you over, I’m linking to three personal finance related carnivals that provide a wealth of information. Take some time out of [...]
Anderson Cooper interviews Walter Cronkite
Saturday, May 26th, 2007This post has been languishing in the drafts section for some time now, so I’m glad to get this out to you all! It’s a little off topic but still very interesting to me, so oh well.
On Febuary 26, 2007, I had the fortune to be at the Universal Ampitheatre for a special interview [...]
Some Tidbits To Ponder
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007Here are two quick things for you to think about until I get my next big post up. The first is a news release by JPL. The release explains
Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have observed that planetary systems – dusty disks of asteroids, comets and possibly planets – are at least as abundant [...]
Carnivals Aplenty
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007Well, my article about education and time management was accepted into several different carnivals about entrepreneurship and education, so I’d like to link to them in the hopes that my readers take the time to read the many excellent posts compiled for the carnivals and walk away with some extra knowledge. First off is the [...]
Education and Time Management
Saturday, March 31st, 2007Continuing education is very important to me - I certainly don’t believe that my learning finished after I graduated from college. Since I’ve entered the workforce I’ve gotten a new education in a way that could never be taught inside a classroom. However, as often as I can, I endeavor to read new books and [...]
Book Review - The Bogleheads Guide to Investing
Sunday, March 18th, 2007Welcome to the first edition of my quick and dirty book reviews, brought to you by your local public library. Actually, in this case, the Los Angeles Public Library system didn’t have the book, so I bought it. Normally, the LAPL has every book I read and even lets you put holds on the books [...]
Financial Insecurity in America
Monday, March 12th, 2007On my way home from work today, I happened to listen to an interview with Richard Wolff, a professor of economics with the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was being interviewed on one of my favorite radio programs, Beneath the Surface, on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles. The interview was all about financial insecurity, [...]