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« Previous EntriesWho are the central bankers working for?
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Big central banks such as the Federal Reserve Bank or the European Central Bank are supposed to be looking out for the interests of the people, working to stave of financial disaster. At least, that is what common wisdom holds. Unfortunately, recent monetary moves by the Fed seem to show otherwise. Unless you’ve been living [...]
A Bank Run in England
Monday, September 17th, 2007The Northern Rock bank in England has an uncertain (to say the least) future on the horizon. As reported by multiple news outlets, bank customers have been waiting in excess of two hours to withdraw savings from the bank. As one of the articles explained:
Northern Rock is Britain’s fifth biggest mortgage lender, but customers [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How to obtain your credit report for free
Thursday, April 12th, 2007One of the most important things you can do to ensure that you have good credit is to check your credit report, to make sure no one has stolen your identity or allowed incorrect information to show up on your report. Your credit report and score are much more important than you might think - [...]
Carnival Day
Monday, March 19th, 2007Today is carnival day! My post Financial Insecurity in America was accepted into the 79th Carnival of Debt Reduction, at Ask Mr Credit Card’s blog. The format is of a university course outline, with my entry coming in under the Final Word section (People always remember the last thing they read, so that’s a good [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]