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Friday, August 3rd, 2007Everybody pays taxes. You can’t help it, no matter how hard you try. What you can help, however, is at what rate your income is taxed and the amount of taxes you do pay, in the end. The current system we have actually enables the richest portion of US citizens the ability to pay a [...]
Market Volatility
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007The topic discussed by many an investor this week, market volatility has been at the forefront of most people’s minds since the massive losses incurred during last week’s roller coaster ride. However, as this excellent article from Vanguard points out, “It’s important, however, to tune out the media “noise” and put this volatility in perspective.” [...]
Inflation and You
Thursday, June 28th, 2007Today I read a really interesting article called Wake Up and Smell the Inflation on Forbes.com, on how the reported inflation figures are far below the true inflation numbers - it seems that there are many reasons a government would want to keep the reported numbers below the actual figure.
As stated in the article:
Interest [...]
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 [...]
High Customer Satisfaction = High Stock Price?
Saturday, May 19th, 2007One of my favorite consumer blogs is Consumerist.com, which has tons of interesting stuff to read every day. Yesterday they strayed from the norm a little bit and posted a piece about the stock market, entitled “How To Beat The Stock Market: Buy Companies With High Customer Satisfaction Scores”. The post has received 16,000 page [...]
Weekend Financial Stories of Interest
Sunday, May 6th, 2007Here are some interesting stories from the world of finance over the weekend, just in case you can’t find something to read this Sunday afternoon:
Businesses Try to Make Money and Save the World, in the NY Times, is an article by Stephanie Strom all about a new type of investment firm: one owned by a [...]
Carnival Day!
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007Hi there, today I’m once again going to link to all the carnivals that have selected an article I’ve written in the past week or two. I hope that you take the time to peruse through all of the posts mentioned in the carnivals, as they collectively represent a lot more wisdom than I have [...]
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, [...]