Retirement
Market in Turmoil
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007It’s been a while since I posted - and things have gotten out of control! The market is up, the market is down, the market is up again.. People have been asking me what’s happening and why is their Roth doing so poorly. Well, I hate to break it to you, but the stock market [...]
The End of Uninterrupted Job Growth
Friday, September 7th, 2007First off, welcome to September. I’m back from my vacation, and I’m slowly but surely getting back into the swing of things.
Second, we all knew this day had to come eventually. The labor department released the new jobs figures for August, and lo and behold, employers eliminated 4,000 jobs in August. The New York [...]
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.” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A Soulful Wit
Thursday, March 8th, 2007Although tempted to engage my contemplative counterpart in a spirited debate regarding the rationality (or irrationality, as the case may be) of participating in the lottery–it must be believed, dear reader, that I serve a larger role than that of faithful advocate for the Devil–I have chosen to let my first post serve merely as [...]
The Lottery Exposed
Thursday, March 8th, 2007As we are all transfixed on the extremely exciting Mega Millions lottery jackpot (a record $370 million) I thought it would be interesting to see just how much money gets spent on lottery tickets.
Most people think that lottery tickets are a fun, exciting way to spend a buck or two - “Maybe I’ll [...]