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- May 2013 (1)
- March 2013 (3)
- 02: Ways to Ruin Your Finances (1)
- 04: Six More Tips to Put You on the Road to Riches (3)
- 28: Making Plans for Retirement (1)
- February 2013 (5)
- January 2013 (4)
- December 2012 (12)
- 03: How Much Does College Really Cost? (0)
- 03: 5 Ways to Save Money for a House (0)
- 06: Which Accounting Method Should You Use for Your Small Business (1)
- 10: 5 Tips for Spending your First Paycheck (0)
- 13: Decoding Health Insurance Jargon (0)
- 16: Are You Fully Prepared for Retirement? (0)
- 17: ‘Til Debt Do You Part: Should a Hidden Financial Past Stop the Wedding? Part One (0)
- 18: What You Need To Know About Debt Relief (0)
- 20: Last-Minute Christmas Shopping Hurts Your Wallet (0)
- 23: Getting Serious About Paying Off Your Mortgage (0)
- 24: ‘Til Debt Do You Part: Should a Hidden Financial Past Stop the Wedding? Part Two (0)
- 31: Stocking the Bomb Shelter: Is Buying in Bulk Actually Worth It? (0)
- November 2012 (13)
- 01: Four Money Saving Tips for New Homeowners (0)
- 05: 5 Unforeseen Expenses That Can Ruin Your Retirement (0)
- 08: How to Get a Tax Deduction from Hurricane Sandy (0)
- 12: Why people use short term loans (0)
- 12: 4 Bond Strategies You Can Use To Grow Your Portfolio (2)
- 15: How I Would Have Retired Early (0)
- 19: 5 Ways To Make Your Resume Stand Out (0)
- 19: Best Holiday Gift Ideas (0)
- 22: Make sure your contents insurance covers Christmas presents (0)
- 22: Average Cost of a Thanksgiving Dinner (0)
- 24: Coping with sudden illness and debt (0)
- 26: A Snowball’s Chance in … America: Creating and Maintaining a Debt Snowball (0)
- 29: Why You Don’t Want to Make an Auto Insurance Claim (1)
- October 2012 (17)
- 01: Have Trouble Controlling Splurges? (0)
- 01: The Big Trip: How to Prepare Your Finances for Travel (2)
- 03: 5 Tricks to Help you Cut your Telecom and Utility Bills (0)
- 03: Money Saving Around The Home (0)
- 04: It’s Better to Be in Credit Card Debt Than Bounce a Check (0)
- 08: 5 Ways to Enjoy the Movies for Cheap (1)
- 08: Frugal Tip: Save Money on Redecorating (0)
- 11: Families Risk Tricks to Save Money on Treats (0)
- 15: Bond Ladders Aren’t Just for Old People (4)
- 16: Some Tips for Those in Financial Difficulty (0)
- 18: What Happens When You Don’t Pay Taxes (0)
- 20: Saving for Retirement is Multidimensional (0)
- 22: How to Cancel a Student Loan and Why (0)
- 25: The Finances of Faster Highways (0)
- 29: Student Loans – Yea or Nay? (0)
- 31: Do I need a personal injury solicitor? (0)
- 31: 5 tricks to help you save money on entertainment online (0)
- September 2012 (13)
- 03: 5 Money-Saving Car Maintenance Tips and Tricks (0)
- 06: The Store is About to Get More Expensive, but It Might Help Unemployment (0)
- 10: How to Have Fun For Cheap (0)
- 11: How to Save Money Shopping (0)
- 12: Budgeting after the Wedding (0)
- 13: The Age of Financial Repression (3)
- 14: Factors in Selecting the Best Bank Account (0)
- 17: Hiring A Financial Planner: What You Should Do (0)
- 18: Shopping for a New(er) Car? How to Minimize the Cost (1)
- 21: What to Buy Your Teenager For Their First Car (1)
- 24: The Cost of Raising a Child (0)
- 27: Ways to Start a Business (0)
- 27: How Four Types of Financial Agents are Paid (1)
- August 2012 (19)
- 02: Fail Proof Family Budgeting Tips (0)
- 02: Who Pays Taxes on Government Savings Bonds and When? (0)
- 06: SMEs and professional indemnity (0)
- 06: How To Promote Your Business Using Technology (0)
- 08: Thinking of opening your own business? Here’s some advice. (0)
- 09: The Law of Diminishing Returns and Why it Doesn’t Pay to Obsess (0)
- 10: Should You Invest in Dividend Stocks? (3)
- 13: The History of the Credit Card (0)
- 13: 5 Things To Know About Online Stock Trading (0)
- 14: Making Sure Home Projects Are Right for You (0)
- 16: New Financial Regulations May Lead to Your Mortgage Getting Sold (0)
- 20: Saving your business from the ‘unfair’ gas electricity bill increase (0)
- 21: How to Protect Your Family (0)
- 21: Extra Ways to Earn Money in Education (1)
- 21: 5 Things To Know about Mutual Funds (0)
- 22: How to Competitively Priced Life Insurance (0)
- 23: A Strange Solution to Education and Employment Needs for Young Adults Going into Business Fields (1)
- 27: Unusual Investment Ideas (3)
- 30: The US Middle Class is Losing the Labor Competition with the Middle Class of the World (2)
- July 2012 (20)
- 02: Lazy Portfolios: Are They Worth It? (0)
- 03: Should You Build Your Own Home? (1)
- 05: New Benefit to Homeownership: Larger Unemployment Benefits (0)
- 05: Passive Investment Opportunities (1)
- 09: 9 Ways To Use Twitter To Build Your Blogging Empire (0)
- 12: Evaluating Your Necessary Expenses (0)
- 12: Your Emergency Fund is Probably Underfunded because of COBRA (0)
- 12: How to Overcome a Recession (0)
- 13: What Form of Payment Do You Prefer? (1)
- 16: 3 Steps to Selling your Products Online (2)
- 19: Advice on Export Factoring Credit Checks (0)
- 19: Ways to Tap into Your Equity in Retirement (0)
- 19: Advice for first time buyers (0)
- 19: Why Leasing a Car is Profitable (1)
- 20: Investing in Real Estate Basics (1)
- 20: Difference between Homeowners and Renters (0)
- 23: SME Electricity Savings (0)
- 23: How to Successfully Hire Competent Employees (0)
- 26: Avoid Buying Something You Don’t Need When Talking to Salesmen (3)
- 30: 4 Advantages and 4 Disadvantages of Early Retirement (0)
- June 2012 (11)
- 04: The Hidden Costs of Owning a Smart Phone (0)
- 07: What are the Most Popular Gifts to Give a High School Graduate? (0)
- 11: The Real Deal of “Deal of the Day” Websites (0)
- 14: Do the Rich Hold Back the Middle Class (5)
- 18: 3 Ways to Teach Your Kids Financial Responsibility (3)
- 21: Things That Won’t Stop a Bank from Cashing a Check (1)
- 25: How young people can build up their credit score (1)
- 25: Is a Home Warranty Worth Having? (0)
- 28: The Beauty of an Online Business (0)
- 28: Advice on Three Important Financial Decisions for Young Adults (1)
- 29: How To Avoid Annoying Customers as a Business Owner (1)
- May 2012 (12)
- 03: Tax Incidence: What It Is and Why It Matters (0)
- 07: Traits of a Successful Business (0)
- 07: Investing in a Timeshare – Is It Worth It? (3)
- 10: Facing Foreclosure? Here are Some Programs that Might Be Available for You (0)
- 11: Investing in a Climate Change ISA (0)
- 14: Best of Steadfast Finances (0)
- 21: Behind the Food Scene: How to Succeed as a Server (2)
- 23: Avoid losing money when making a claim (0)
- 24: How Did the Federal Government Run a Surplus (0)
- 28: How to Turn Artistic Creativity Into Supplemental Income (3)
- 30: Debt Settlement vs. Debt Consolidation (0)
- 31: 5 Tips to Help You Land a Job Out of College (0)
- April 2012 (14)
- 02: Benefits of an Adjustable Rate Mortgage (4)
- 03: Why Credit Cards are Attractive (1)
- 05: Pareto Principle and the Power of Scale and Time on Your Finances (0)
- 09: The Simple Yet Fulfilling Life of Frugal Billionaires (4)
- 11: Visa Black Card Review (1)
- 12: Why are Home Foreclosures Picking Up in 2012? (1)
- 16: Common but Avoidable IRA Tax Mistakes (0)
- 19: 4 Corporate Finance Ways to View Spending Your Personal Tax Return (0)
- 20: Turning your home as an investment (0)
- 23: Credit Cards: The Culprit of the Modern World Debt (2)
- 26: It’s Harder Than Ever to Get a Mortgage and It’s Only Going to Get Worse (0)
- 26: Banking in a Difficult Economy (0)
- 30: Travel for Pennies: How Rethinking International Travel Can Save You Money (0)
- 30: Staying in the Black with the Bank (0)
- March 2012 (13)
- 01: Why High Deductible Health Care Plans Won’t Save Our Economy On Health Care Costs…Yet (1)
- 05: How Disposable Income Affects Bankruptcy (0)
- 07: How to save money when decorating your home (0)
- 08: What are the Political Risks of Your Retirement Plan? (2)
- 12: Roth vs. Traditional IRA: Pros and Cons (0)
- 15: Why Gas Prices Rise (0)
- 19: 7 Smart Tips For Teaching Your Kids About Money (3)
- 21: What You Need to Know About Mobile Payments (0)
- 22: Five Ways PPI Was Mis-Sold Over The Years (0)
- 22: Why Your Rent is on the Rise in 2012 (0)
- 24: Saturday Roundup – Best Articles (0)
- 26: 7 Most Common Types of Homes (2)
- 29: Mortgage-To-Lease Program from Bank of America: Helpful, or Next Foreclosure Scam? (2)
- February 2012 (16)
- 01: Why the Recession was a Good Thing (1)
- 02: The Best Online Credit Tools
- 02: When Frugal isn’t Smart (1)
- 05: Yakezie Carnival – The Superbowl Clones Game (31)
- 06: Why Online Marketing is Changing Economy (1)
- 07: Losing Interest in Buying Gold? (0)
- 08: Saving Money on Car Insurance (1)
- 09: The Case for Getting Two Bachelors Degrees in Two Different Fields (6)
- 12: Real Estate Investing for Beginners (1)
- 13: Does January Indicate the Direction of the Stock Market for the Entire Year? (1)
- 16: Should the Fed be Fighting Deflation or Inflation? (0)
- 20: 5 Inflation Survival Tips That Will Save You Money (2)
- 21: Fastest Growing Businesses in America (0)
- 23: Future Tax Policy and Why You Don’t Want a Roth IRA (4)
- 27: Will Cosmetic Treatment Boost the Economy? (0)
- 27: What You Need to Know about Your Debt to Income Ratio (3)
- January 2012 (4)
- December 2011 (1)
- 03: Finding Security in Investing (0)
- November 2011 (1)
- August 2011 (2)
- July 2011 (2)
- June 2011 (2)
- May 2011 (3)
- April 2011 (5)
- 04: 60 Minutes on the Housing Crash & Foreclosure Fraud (2)
- 18: The Downside to ‘Trust Us, We Can Regulate Ourselves’ (1)
- 21: David Stockman: Lobbyists Distorting Democracy & Free Market Capitalism (5)
- 22: Shutting Down My Lending Club Investments (182)
- 26: Lobbyist Dollars: The #1 Problem in Contemporary American Politics (4)
- March 2011 (12)
- 01: Installing Solar Panels as a Hedge Against Energy Cost Inflation (6)
- 03: Tracking Performance of Lending Club Investment Returns (20)
- 04: Saudi Arabia Revolution: Oil Back to 2007 Highs? (1)
- 07: Gen Y, the Farmers? (2)
- 09: U.S. Leading World in GM Farming, By Far (10)
- 11: Real Estate vs. Gold Ratio: Getting Closer to 1980s Low (0)
- 14: Saudi Arabia’s Defense Spending: Reaching Out to Touch Someone (4)
- 16: Most Bank Lobbyists are Former Government Employees (0)
- 18: Cisco Pays Dividend; I Feel Old (0)
- 21: How to Game the $7.99/lb Salad Bar (0)
- 23: Housing Double Dip Data Can No Longer Be Downplayed (7)
- 25: Ex-Tax Collectors Turned Corporate Tax Dodging Heroes (8)
- February 2011 (34)
- 01: Empire State Building Saving $4 Million with Windows Upgrade (0)
- 02: The Q Ratio: Quantifying Reversal to the Historical Stock Market Mean (0)
- 02: Long “The Nickel”: Michael Lewis on The Colbert Report (8)
- 03: Snowpocalypse 2011, Round #2 (2)
- 03: Michael Lewis and “Learned” Iconoclast Behavior (0)
- 04: P2P Lending Strategy: Older Borrowers Mean Safer Loans? (6)
- 04: Groupon: $10 for $20 Deal at Barnes & Noble (0)
- 06: The Irish Bubble: Can’t Spell ‘Confidence’ without ‘Con’ (1)
- 07: My First Lending Club Loan Default (6)
- 08: Why I Don’t Use Web or Mobile Personal Finance Software (10)
- 09: Valentine’s Day Groupon: 50% Discount from FTD.com (0)
- 09: Businesses That Give You a Discount for Paying Cash (0)
- 10: 30 Year Mortgage Rates Over 5% Got You Down? Try 18%! (0)
- 11: Post Financial Crisis Retracements: Buy & Hold Investors Making Their Money Back (1)
- 12: Michael Lewis: California’s Debt Crisis is Topic of Next Article (0)
- 13: Farmer Matt Can’t Wait to Spring (0)
- 14: U.S. Income Growth: Reversion From the Mean (2)
- 15: How Capitalism Works: Everybody Owes Everybody Else (0)
- 15: Get Ready for More Inflation Pain at the Checkout Counter (0)
- 16: Barry Ritholtz on Front Running HFTs & Agnotology (0)
- 16: Historical Graphic of Communications Technology & Household Usage (0)
- 17: MERS Fallout: 50% of All Mortgages in U.S. Now in Question (2)
- 18: Just How Far In Debt is the USA? (0)
- 20: Monopoly Without the Paper Money? (0)
- 21: Lending Club Loans: Separating the ‘Wheat from the Chaff’ (17)
- 22: Overstated Home Sales Data: Housing Crash Worse than Expected? (4)
- 23: Consumers Focusing on Research, Not Marketing (0)
- 23: Facebook, Organization & Revolution (3)
- 24: Trading ‘Food Inflation’ Not for the Novice Investor (0)
- 26: Oceanfront Property to be ‘Just’ Ocean by 2100 (4)
- 27: Amish Horsepower Saves the Day (0)
- 27: Google Finally Beginning to Crackdown on SEO Manipulators (3)
- 28: More People Believed in King George During American Revolution than in Today’s U.S. Congress (0)
- 28: Michael Lewis on GPS: A Remarkable Return to ‘Normalcy’ (0)
- January 2011 (28)
- 03: 2010 Remembered as the Year of (Hyper)Inflation? (1)
- 04: CNBC’s Goal: Breed Confidence In The Markets? (0)
- 05: Chartology: Setting Up for Commodities Bubble Part Deux? (0)
- 06: Renting Hot, Home Ownership Not (0)
- 07: Could the Stock Market Rally Really Be ‘This Simple’? (1)
- 07: Middle Class Job Erosion & Mind Blowing Job Loss Statistics (0)
- 09: Biodegradable Fungus to Replace Styrofoam? (0)
- 10: The MBS Snowball Effect: Pension Fund Investors Begin To Speak Up (0)
- 11: The Morality Double Standard: My 2010 Strategic Default Prediction One Year Later (0)
- 12: Snowpocalypse 2011: Snow in 49 of 50 States (2)
- 12: FICO Score CEO Debunks Myths About How Credit Scores are Calculated (2)
- 13: Real Estate: It Will Get Worse (than 2010) Before it Gets Better (0)
- 14: How the Great Recession Changed Us (5)
- 16: Let Them Eat Credit: Debt as the ‘Pacifier’ of Income Inequality (3)
- 17: Financial Reformation: Banks, Brokers & Middlemen No More? (0)
- 18: Correlations Between Gun Deaths vs. Economic, Psychological & Political Variables (1)
- 19: Bridging the “Trust Deficit” in U.S. Real Estate (0)
- 20: Universally Speaking, The Size of Your Screw Ups are Insignificant (0)
- 20: Warning Signs of a Midlife Crisis (1)
- 22: P2P Lending Investors Beware: Government Layoffs & State Bankruptcy Risk Increasing (0)
- 24: Take a Guess Who is Paying Fannie & Freddie’s Legal Fees (0)
- 25: Let’s Go Grocery Shopping… at Wal-Mart? (0)
- 25: Best Cities to Rent versus Buy (1)
- 26: Visualizing the Double Dip in U.S. Real Estate (0)
- 27: Soldiers Returning Home to Foreclosure (3)
- 28: 72% of U.S. Cities Saw Foreclosures Increase in 2010 (0)
- 29: Buying Bank Owned, Short Sale or Foreclosed Property (0)
- 31: Rental Demand Rising: Balance Returning to Real Estate? (0)
- December 2010 (30)
- 01: Six Billion Dollars for Groupon’s Email List is El Ridiculoso (3)
- 02: Chris Whalen: Federal Reserve Setup to Help Real Economy After Wall Street Destroyed Itself (0)
- 03: Simpson-Bowles Deficit Commission Summation: The Greediest Generation (3)
- 05: China’s $15 Trillion in (Economic) Potential Energy (0)
- 06: American Demosclerosis: Borrow & Spend the New American Way (2)
- 07: Welcome to the Double Dip in Real Estate (0)
- 08: It Pays To Wait, But Not with Interest Rates (0)
- 09: Amazon’s Free Shipping Deal Saved Me 38% (2)
- 10: When Will Real Estate Investors Get Government Stimulus Funds? (0)
- 12: Republicans Supporting Keynesian Economics All Along? (0)
- 13: Chartology: So You Think the Markets are Cheap (0)
- 14: Groupon: 1 Year Subscription to ‘The Economist’ for $1/Issue (0)
- 14: Crime Shouldn’t Pay: Tell Attorney Generals to Hold TBTF Banks Accountable (0)
- 15: 30 Year History Lesson: National Debt Up 14 fold, Economy Up Only 3-4 Fold (0)
- 16: 2011 Foreclosure Numbers Will Be Worse than 2010 (1)
- 17: Chartology: 1987 Crash Trading Channel Back in Play (0)
- 17: CNBC: Investing Out, Bullish ‘Parabolic’ Moves In (0)
- 19: Banks Fear Foreclosures because of Mark to Market Accounting? (0)
- 20: Video Games Help Develop Vision, Attention & Cognitive Skills (2)
- 21: The New Normal of Christmas Shopping? (0)
- 22: Facebook vs. China: the New Iron Curtain (0)
- 22: Chartology: Global Warming and Carbon Dioxide Emission Levels (0)
- 23: Experience Doesn’t Mean Much in a Constantly Evolving World (1)
- 23: Communists Bailing Out Capitalists (0)
- 26: Things You Can’t Unlearn: Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse (7)
- 27: Debtor’s Remorse, Visualized (0)
- 28: 10 Favorite Neologisms & Buzzwords of 2010 (0)
- 29: Unemployment Rates by Education (0)
- 30: Lending Club Update: Earning 15.6% NAR on P2P Lending Investments (24)
- 31: The Condo Money Trap: 68% Loss and In Foreclosure (0)
- November 2010 (25)
- 01: Chartology: The Halloween Indicator vs. Sell in May and Go Away (0)
- 02: Obama Wearing Herbert Hoover’s (Economic) Concrete Booties? (0)
- 03: The Business/Stimulus of Political Ads (0)
- 05: Chartology: Visualizing Food Inflation (2)
- 08: Finally Time to Buy a Plasma HDTV? (6)
- 09: What is the ‘New Normal’? (0)
- 10: How to Fill Out a Lending Club Loan Application to Attract Investors (0)
- 11: Greenspan Admits Financial Crisis was Caused by Fraud & Criminal Actions (5)
- 12: Thanksgiving Dinner, Food Inflation, & the Grocery Store Shrink Ray (0)
- 15: Never Make an Investment After a Money Manager Hypes a Stock on CNBC (0)
- 16: Hey Realtors: How Crazy Am I For Waiting Now? (3)
- 17: How Obama’s Flip Flop on Bush Tax Cuts Screwed Fixed Income Investors (2)
- 18: Everyone’s a Deficit Hawk, Until it Affects Their Wallet (0)
- 19: Jon Stewart: the Financial Crisis Occurred Because of an Idiot Shortage (0)
- 21: Looking Back at My ‘An Index Fund Investor’s Dream’ Call (0)
- 21: Mortgage Backed Securities: If You Erase the Debt Record, We All Go Back to Zero (0)
- 22: When Groupthink, Gangs, & Cheating Trumps Expert Opinion (3)
- 23: The Elastic Spending of Cable TV Subscriptions (0)
- 24: So Long Gold, Hello Silver? (0)
- 25: Tryptophan & Serotonin: Your Thanksgiving Day Narcotic (0)
- 26: Money Can Buy Happiness, On Average (0)
- 27: Just When Credit Card Companies Thought Debtor Anger Had Subsided (0)
- 28: Food Culture Wars: Organic & Nutrient Dense vs. Manufactured & Inexpensive (3)
- 29: Begun, the Currency War Has (1)
- 30: David Einhorn: What’s Still Wrong with the Entire Financial & FinReg System (0)
- October 2010 (26)
- 01: The 1800 Dutch Financial Crisis vs. 2008 U.S. Financial Crisis (0)
- 02: What’s More Reasonable: Spending Money on Super Foods or Junk Foods? (1)
- 03: I Got Sucked Into Facebook (and How to Quit) (2)
- 04: Peer To Peer Lending Popularity Continues with ‘The Simpsons’ Appearance (2)
- 05: Case Schiller Index Does Not Account for Variables Dragging Down Real Estate Market (0)
- 06: What Sounds Better: Skype/Google Video Chat for Free or Cisco’s Umi for $275 per Year (3)
- 07: How the Great Recession Changed Our Spending Habits (1)
- 08: We Now Have a Foreclosure Based Economy (0)
- 09: Behavioral Economics: Real vs. Perceived Wealth Distribution (9)
- 10: Hope Floats, Until It Doesn’t (3)
- 11: The 70 Year Dow Jones Trading Channel (0)
- 12: The Feedback Loop of Real Estate, Poverty, Crime, Education & Taxes (0)
- 13: Foreclosing On a Homeowner Without a Mortgage Should Never Happen (0)
- 14: What Happens When the Public Does Not Acknowledge Bank Foreclosure Rights? (1)
- 15: 28% of Securitized Loans Did Not Meet Underwriting Standards (1)
- 17: Too Big To Fail Banks Turning into REITs (0)
- 18: Reggie Middleton: Nothing has Changed & Fundamentals Getting Worse (0)
- 19: American Politics: Garbage In, Garbage Out (2)
- 20: Both Parties Spend Like Drunken Sailors (2)
- 22: U.S. Real Estate Market has STD? (2)
- 23: Separation of Church & State vs. Separation of Corporate Interests & American Politics (0)
- 25: Reversion to the Mean: Real Estate to Fall Another 20 Percent (2)
- 26: Quantitative Easing II and Dow Jones Index Trading Channel (0)
- 27: Changing Education Paradigms: Collaboration is Cheating? (0)
- 28: Frontrunning the Mortgage Mess (0)
- 31: Depolarization: Jon Stewart’s ‘Rally For Sanity’ Message? (2)
- September 2010 (21)
- 02: Gulf Coast Real Estate Values Down 5% to 15% After BP Oil Spill (0)
- 04: Saturday Motivation: Alabama Strength Coach Cochran Style (1)
- 07: TARP 18x: the Unknown Bailout that Requires a Supreme Court Ruling for Full Disclosure (0)
- 08: Academic Inflation: The Mother of All Investment Bubbles (6)
- 10: Home Prices Have a Long Way to Fall to Meet Historical Trendline (10)
- 12: Return to Subprime Mortgages: HUD Lowers Minimum Home Buyer FICO Score to 500 (2)
- 14: Taking Advantage of Lending Club’s 1.5% Cash Bonus on Recurring Deposits (2)
- 15: Vulture Investors Love the Real Estate Bubble & the 50% Plus Discounts (4)
- 16: Chartology: Historical View of National Debt vs. Federal Tax Brackets (2)
- 17: Summer of Recovery? (1)
- 18: 30 Year Spending Binge Now Replaced by Saving Spree (2)
- 20: So Many Ids, So Few Super-Egos (0)
- 21: Lending Club Update: Earning 15% NAR on Microloan Investments (62)
- 22: 5 New Ideas for Controversial ETFs That Will Never Exist (0)
- 23: Global Obesity Rates: Making Money On the Obesity Epidemic (2)
- 24: Visualizing the ‘Great Reset’ in Consumer Credit (0)
- 25: Greenspan on the Expiration of Bush Tax Cuts (2)
- 27: Sorry Stockpickers: Market Psychology Trumps Fundamentals (2)
- 28: Crowd Accelerated Innovation: YouTube Accelerating Evolution of Ideas (0)
- 29: Investment Decisions on Single Variable Analysis is Foolish (2)
- 30: P2P Lending Going Mainstream? (0)
- August 2010 (23)
- 02: Why I’m a Recovering Republican (7)
- 04: Should We Be ‘Hoping’ for Deflation? (19)
- 05: Think Speculators Don’t Influence Markets, Think Again (4)
- 07: The Foolish Main Street Real Estate Bailout (5)
- 09: Food Inflation: Breakfast Ain’t Getting Any Cheaper (0)
- 11: Who’s Going to Cash Out the Baby Boomers? (1)
- 12: Chartology: From a Technical Analysis Perspective Stock Market Looks Anything But Pretty (1)
- 13: How’s That Too Big To Fail Bank Working For You? (1)
- 14: Rick Santelli Dropping Knowledge Bombs on Real Estate, Deflation, & Government Stimulus (3)
- 15: The Economic Dangers When Banks Can’t Collect (0)
- 16: Spooky Similarities Between 1930 & 2010 Stock Market (5)
- 17: How Credit Card Companies Make Their Money (0)
- 18: Sovereign Debt Restructuring and The Keynesian Endpoint? (2)
- 20: Google Insight Search Trends: U.S. Population’s Confidence & Pessimism (0)
- 21: Current Events Form Future Trends (0)
- 22: Total Equity Fund Flows Negative vs. Total Bond Fund Flows Positive (0)
- 23: 20 Funny ETF Ticker Symbols That Will Never Exist (7)
- 25: Homeowners Still Have Too Much (Back End) Debt to Refinance Mortgages (0)
- 26: Google Voice & Phone: Free All-In-One Communications Platform (1)
- 27: Corporate Strategic Defaults Made Easy by NonRecourse Loans (0)
- 28: Beware the Points Trap: Lower Interest Rates Doesn’t Mean You’ll Save Money Over Long Term (1)
- 29: Schiff, Blodget, Ratigan Should Be Among Our Political Leaders (1)
- 31: Manufacturing Jobs in 60 Year Decline; Middle Class Going Along for the Ride? (3)
- July 2010 (15)
- 02: Home Prices Will Continue to Fall on Basic Supply & Demand Economics (1)
- 03: Raw Foods vs. Manufactured Foods: Food Consumption by Individual Countries (3)
- 06: Considering the Fate of the U.S. Economy While on Pseudo-Vacation (3)
- 07: My Favorite Pro-Gold Chart: the S&P 500 to Gold Ratio (0)
- 09: Real Estate Sales: A Record Fall to Record Low (2)
- 12: Sell the Hope Fail (1)
- 14: Taking Advantage of Lending Club’s 5% Cash Bonus Offer (0)
- 16: P2P Investors Beware: Further Proof Government Jobs Not Ironclad (0)
- 19: Cultural Cognition: Ideologies Can Negatively Influence Problem Solving (1)
- 21: Fearmongers Preach Socialism, but Love Government Subsidies (4)
- 23: Interest Rates So Low Mortgage Calculators are Useless (2)
- 26: Psychology of Choice: Cultural Dogma Affects Choice and Task Performance (0)
- 28: Fighting Greed with (Whistleblower) Greed (0)
- 29: Real Estate Bubble Chartology Post-Government Home Buyer Tax Credits (7)
- 31: The Questionable Business Connection Between Glenn Beck & Goldline (4)
- June 2010 (20)
- 01: Should Lenders Have Known Better? (3)
- 03: Could Beachfront Real Estate Decrease in Value After BP Oil Spill? (4)
- 05: Is it Better to Buy than Rent? (1)
- 06: Unemployment Numbers of The Great Recession (1)
- 07: What Should You Really Be Afraid Of (2)
- 08: Scariest Image Ever for Oceanfront Business Owners (2)
- 09: A Faster Way to Review Lending Club Notes (16)
- 13: Time Perspectives: Why We Argue About Money (1)
- 15: Green Energy Still Dependent Upon Mining (0)
- 16: Fannie & Freddie ‘Too Big To Fail’ but ‘Too Cheap to Stay Listed’ (0)
- 17: A New Wave of Distressed Sales & Foreclosures Due to BP Oil Spill? (0)
- 18: Lending Club Update: Earning 14% ROI on P2P Lending Investments (6)
- 21: No Doubt About It: A Double Dip in Housing is Certain (7)
- 22: Best AntiConsumerism, Anti-Tech Gadget Ad Ever (4)
- 23: Proof that Wall Street Analysts Rarely Advise General Public to Sell Stocks (0)
- 24: 15 & 30 Year Mortgages at All Time Lows (For Now) (3)
- 27: Strasburg Autographed Rookie Baseball Card Going for Half Million Plus (2)
- 28: P2P Investors Beware: Not All Government Jobs are Safe (2)
- 29: The American Dream Didn’t Mention Anything About Student Loan Debt (2)
- 30: Psychology of the Stock Market Crash and Rally (0)
- May 2010 (13)
- 02: Noteworthy Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway 2010 Annual Meeting (2)
- 03: General Motors “Loan Payback” Commercial Sets New Unethical Standard in Advertising (2)
- 04: Vanguard Now Offering Free Trades on In-House ETFs (1)
- 07: Do You Know Your Congressman’s Position on the STOCK Act? (2)
- 10: The Social Stigma of Foreclosure is Ending (1)
- 12: Over Half of Millenials Would Save Money and Pay Down Debt vs. Invest in Stock Market and Real Estate (3)
- 16: Meltup: The 20% Educated Public Solution (1)
- 17: How I’m Fighting Food Inflation (10)
- 19: Goldline’s Gold Coins Only Worth Half the Meltdown Value (9)
- 22: Before You Protest, Identify Who You Are Really Harming (2)
- 25: True Cost of Car Ownership (5)
- 27: This is What Real Technical Analysis Looks Like (0)
- 29: Why Legislators Will Never Draft Real FinReg (1)
- April 2010 (11)
- 01: How Payday Loans Work (2)
- 04: Classic Example of Addiction Psychology (1)
- 06: Homeowner Fires Realtor, Gives Away Mercedes Benz to Sweeten Deal (0)
- 07: The Dark Side to ABC’s ‘Extreme Makeover’ (0)
- 08: Cramer Makes an Appearance on South Park (via Cartman) (0)
- 13: U.S. Trade Deficit and Household Deficits are Amazingly Similar (0)
- 15: We’re Only Halfway Through the Foreclosure Problem (1)
- 19: We Pay More for Cable TV than Clean Water (0)
- 23: Median Home Price Measured in Gold, Not Dollars (6)
- 26: Strategic Defaults: I Hate to Say ‘I Told You So’ but… (5)
- 29: The Quants: How Mathematicians Led the Market Meltdown (0)
- March 2010 (16)
- 01: Investor Psychology: Missing Out on Profits is More Frightening than Losing Money (14)
- 03: Pay Extra for Turnkey Real Estate or Save with Fixer Upper? (6)
- 05: Education versus Unemployment Rate (2)
- 08: Thought Provoking Quotes about Debt and Paying Interest (6)
- 09: Why it’s Important to Buy during the Doom & Gloom News (10)
- 11: What Makes an Advertisement Unforgettable? (5)
- 12: High Income Consumers Love those Groupons (4)
- 14: Best Reads of the Week: Season Tickets to a Sports Bar Edition (1)
- 16: What Industry Could You Bankrupt if You had 500 Million Users? (15)
- 18: Best Excuses to Skip Work and Watch March Madness Basketball (8)
- 20: The Short Sale Process Could be Getting Much Faster (3)
- 22: My Lending Club Investment Portfolio Performance (8)
- 24: Why Are So Many Mainstream Media Websites Saying Real Estate is a Bargain? (5)
- 26: Kill the Fine Print, or Lose My Business! (0)
- 29: What Else Can the Government Tax? (16)
- 31: Healthy Lunch Recipes for Less than $5 per Serving (1)
- February 2010 (18)
- 01: If You Have a Blog, You’ve Got Leverage! (5)
- 02: Personal Finance Equations You Should Know (5)
- 03: Personal Finance Equations You Should Know: the Amortization Equation (16)
- 05: Personal Finance Equations You Should Know: the Cash Flow Equation (9)
- 07: Unique Gift Ideas for Valentine’s Day (7)
- 09: Friends Trust Friends 25% Less after Great Recession? (4)
- 11: Personal Finance Equations You Should Know: the Savings per Month Ratio (2)
- 12: Why Gen X and Gen Y are Increasingly Relying on Comedy Central for News (3)
- 14: Best Reads of the Week: Too Many Social Media Choices Edition (6)
- 15: Keeping In Touch is Expensive, but Getting Cheaper (5)
- 16: Can Google’s ‘Insights for Search’ Make You a Better Investor? (4)
- 17: Visualizing One Trillion Dollars and U.S. National Debt (3)
- 19: How I Find the Highest Paying Dividend Stocks (6)
- 22: 10 Easy Ways to Go Broke (9)
- 23: Knowing When ‘Not to Buy’ is Just as Imporant as Knowing When to Buy (6)
- 25: Personal Finance Equations You Should Know: the Leverage Ratios (1)
- 27: Upscale Dishes You Can Make at Home for Half Price (2)
- 28: Best Reads of the Week: The Demographic Profile of Millennials Edition (6)
- January 2010 (20)
- 01: Football Party Food Ideas for College Bowl Week (5)
- 02: Trends that Will Influence Financial Markets for 2010 (9)
- 03: The Bubble Decade Documentary (8)
- 05: Why Pay Gym Membership & Personal Trainer Fees when YouTube is Free? (18)
- 06: Gen Y Developing a Preference for ‘Used’ Stuff? (11)
- 08: 10 Signs You Have a Debt Avoidance Problem (8)
- 10: Best Reads of the Week: the ‘Too Big for Jail’ Edition (1)
- 11: Knowing When Enough is Enough (11)
- 12: Visualizing How the Things You Own, End Up Owning You (64)
- 14: Younger Investors Becoming More Risk Averse than Older Investors (14)
- 15: How Much Money Changes Hands in a Single Stock in Just One Minute (3)
- 17: Best Reads of the Week: the ‘Moving On Up’ Edition (3)
- 18: George Carlin on Our Obsession with Stuff (3)
- 20: Should I Ignore My Raise and Save the Difference in Income? (13)
- 21: Why I Have a Love-Hate Relationship with Earnings Season (3)
- 23: Maybe a Little Obsessive Compulsive Behavior is a Good Thing (16)
- 25: How Much of Your Time is Invested in Things that Don’t Matter? (8)
- 26: Consumption Equals Jobs (6)
- 28: DIY Alternatives to Processed Foods that Save You Money (13)
- 31: Best Reads of the Week: Valentine’s Day is a Ripoff Edition (7)
- December 2009 (18)
- 02: Black Friday 2009 Spending Analysis: Foot Traffic Up, Consumerism Down (5)
- 03: Giving ‘MagicJack’ a Honest Try (21)
- 05: Giving a Gift Someone Actually Likes or Wants Doubles the Value (11)
- 06: Best Reads of the Week: Social Media Bargain Hunting, Tax Tips, & Rethinking Life Insurance (7)
- 07: And People Wonder Why I Call ‘Most’ Americans Sheeple (22)
- 08: Debt Collector Scare Tactics Straight Out of Goodfellas (21)
- 10: Why is it So Difficult to Convince People to Save and Invest? (12)
- 12: Lots of People are Making Money Off of Tiger Woods’ Transgressions (3)
- 14: Middleman Beware: The Internet is Making You Obsolete (15)
- 16: Visualizing How Your Stuff Owns You (14)
- 17: Investing in Gold? Don’t Forget About Women & Sheep! (9)
- 18: My Favorite Commercials of 2009 (8)
- 23: Back on the Air! (6)
- 24: Maybe Asking Santa for a White Christmas was a Bad Idea (5)
- 26: My Favorite Frugal Living Substitutions of 2009 (6)
- 27: Credit Unions Begin ‘Anti-Too Big To Fail’ Advertising Campaign (14)
- 29: How I Pick the Best Long Term, Buy and Hold Stocks (5)
- 31: 2000 to 2009 Was the Second Worst Performing Decade for the Dow (2)
- November 2009 (16)
- 02: How I Find Value Where Others Do Not (8)
- 04: Where have the Pioneers of High Interest Internet Banking Gone? (4)
- 06: Charles Schwab Might be the Best Choice for Passive Investors (5)
- 08: Best Reads of the Week: Unemployment Above 10% for First Time Since 1980s Edition (0)
- 09: How Not to Wage a Public Relations Battle (6)
- 10: Traders Know it’s a Gold Bubble, Why Don’t You? (41)
- 12: Controversial Documentary ‘Food, Inc.’ is Now Available Online. (10)
- 14: The Psychology of Bubbles: Using Hindsight to Examine Why We Bought into the Hype (27)
- 16: Confirmation Bias: Search for Information that You Don’t Want to Hear (7)
- 18: Fighting Back Against the ‘Too Big to Fail’ Banks (18)
- 20: New Frugality Appears to be More than Just a Fad (14)
- 22: Best Reads of the Week: Gold Bubbles, TBTF Banks, & PR Improvements (4)
- 24: Why I Hate Thanksgiving (24)
- 25: What to Do When Stuck with Airline Delays (0)
- 27: Restaurant Meals You Can Make at Home with Leftover Turkey (2)
- 30: Investor Psychology: Your Brain is Hardwired to ‘Follow the Herd’ (39)
- October 2009 (13)
- 05: Why it Pays to Follow Your Boss on Facebook or Twitter (2)
- 06: Monetize Your Photos with a Personal Endorsement from Udorse.com (5)
- 09: 10 Reasons Why Investing in Gold is a Bad Idea (56)
- 12: Ever Wonder What it’s Like on a Trading Floor? (1)
- 14: Most Overhyped Psychological Numbers and Dates in History? (0)
- 16: Unsophisticated, Cold Climate, and ‘Backwoods’ States have Lower Foreclosure Rates (6)
- 18: Best Reads of the Week: 2009 PF Blogger Fantasy Baseball League Edition (3)
- 20: Why Investing in Emerging Markets Can be Dangerous (11)
- 22: Brooksley Born’s story: Fighting Wall Street, Rubin & Greenspan was a Bad Career Move (2)
- 24: Some Tech Bubble Stocks Finally Breaking Even after a 10 Year Wait (13)
- 26: The Great Unwind: Frugality, DeLeveraging, & Ethics Altering the Post-Crisis Consumer (4)
- 29: SF Undergoing Site Maintenance (0)
- 30: Restaurant Meals You Can Make at Home For Half the Price (21)
- September 2009 (13)
- 01: My Plan to Beat the Lending Club, Peer-to-Peer Investing Average (62)
- 03: This is How To Run a Bank: Take Deposits, Hold the Loans, & Implement the 3-6-3 Rule (7)
- 05: Best Reads of the Week: Prime Borrowers Beginning to Default on Mortgages Edition. (2)
- 07: The Faces of Labor Day (0)
- 09: The Benefits of a Credit Card with a Low Spending/Credit Limit (4)
- 11: Ever Wonder How a Pawn (Pawn Shop) Works? (8)
- 14: 10 Reasons You Should Hire an Accountant (4)
- 16: Lessons Learned from Canada: Banking is Supposed to be Boring (3)
- 18: Could a Digital, Peer-to-Peer Currency Replace Your National Currency? (10)
- 21: Best of Money Carnival (8)
- 22: Insider Trading: Illegal for You and I, Not for Politicians (1)
- 24: Thriftville vs Squanderville: Short Term Actions have Long Term Consequences. (0)
- 26: I Haven’t Bought a Music CD in Over 10 Years. (11)
- August 2009 (10)
- 02: Best Reads of the Week: the Inconvenient Truth of the Health Care Debate Edition (2)
- 04: How Does Your Emergency Fund Compare to Your Confidence Fund? (3)
- 06: Nearly 50 Percent of U.S. Homeowners with a Mortgage will be Underwater in 2011 (2)
- 08: Best Reads of the Week – the We’re Up 50 Percent From the Lows Edition. (1)
- 11: Making Your Money Back: Similarities between the Tech Bubble and the Housing Bubble (5)
- 22: Steadfast Finances was Hacked, Now Restored. (Thanks HostGator!) (3)
- 24: Could Wall Street be Warming to the Idea of Health Insurance Reform? (0)
- 26: 10 Benefits of Using a Headhunter/Recruiter (22)
- 28: Management vs Marketing: This is How to Run a Small Business (2)
- 30: Weekend Reads: Fastest Growing Companies of 2009 Edition (1)
- July 2009 (14)
- 02: Should We Adopt a National Sin Tax on Junk Food to Reduce Obesity Epidemic? (67)
- 04: Why Do We Rent Some Stuff but Buy Other Stuff? (3)
- 07: The Best Counter Argument to ‘Green Shoots’ that Main Stream Media will Never Discuss (3)
- 09: Louis C.K. on Getting Back to the Basics (3)
- 11: Best Reads of the Week: Insurance Insider Speaks Out Edition. (4)
- 14: Beware Greenwashing Advertisements When Buying a New Home (2)
- 17: Calling Out the Penny Wise, Pound Foolish (4)
- 20: Is Advertising on the Moon Going Too Far? (0)
- 23: How to Spot an Investment Bubble (12)
- 25: Vanguard’s Chief Economist Discusses Recession and Emerging Markets (0)
- 27: Are You Being Fooled by Stealth Re-Branding? (4)
- 28: 12 Facts You Should Know about Facebook’s Business Potential (5)
- 29: How to Get Actively Managed Funds for Free (7)
- 31: High Frequency Trading and Why I Couldn’t Care Less (4)
- June 2009 (15)
- 02: 10 Reasons You Should Never Short a Stock or Index Fund (6)
- 04: The Ascent Of Man: Should I Blame Technology for My Car Accident (5)
- 06: 10 Ways a Healthy Lifestyle Will Help You Save Money (11)
- 08: Liar’s Poker Author Speaks Out from an Insider’s View to the Root of the Financial Crisis (2)
- 10: Peter Schiff’s Bearish Hyperinflation Call on The Daily Show (6)
- 13: Car Czar, Pay Czar… What Other Czars Do We Need? (7)
- 15: Should You Perform Maintainance on the Empty House in Your Neighborhood? (2)
- 17: 5 Healthy Dishes from the Victory (Suburban) Garden for Under One Dollar (10)
- 18: What’s Worse than Trillions on the National Debt Clock? Try the Carbon Counter! (13)
- 20: Sometimes the Hardest (and Wisest) Thing to Do is to Do Nothing (5)
- 22: What Does “Buy on the Dips” Actually Mean? (8)
- 23: J.D. Power Says Initial Car Quality has Never Been Better (0)
- 25: The Pros and Cons of Investing in ETFs (7)
- 27: Everyone Needs a Mentor (1)
- 29: Should You Invest like a Shark, or a Goldfish? (0)
- May 2009 (17)
- 01: Chrysler’s Troubled History: The Three Minute Distilled Edition (2)
- 03: Weekend Reads: the Don’t Forget Mother’s Day is One Week Away Edition (5)
- 05: An End to the Housing Crash: Bailed Out Banks Demolishing Foreclosed Homes? (9)
- 07: Should You Adopt President Obama’s ‘Pay-As-You-Go’ Rule in Your Family Budget? (2)
- 09: Jack Bogle Thinks American Business is On Sale! (2)
- 11: 20 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Choosing an Online Discount Broker (2)
- 13: 20 Frugal Tips from Someone Who Lived Through the Great Depression (13)
- 16: Why You Should Avoid the Overhyped, Breaking News Stocks (3)
- 17: Weekend Reads: Stock Market Stuck in a Trading Range Edition (0)
- 18: An Index Fund Investor’s Dream: S&P 500 Earnings are at Record Lows (4)
- 20: Want to Be an Active Investor? Try a Fantasy Stock Market Game First! (5)
- 21: New York Investment Bankers Can Rationalize Theft and Cheating Twice as Easily as Regular People (6)
- 23: What is a Trader’s Market? (4)
- 24: Weekend Reads: Memorial Day and Saying Thanks Edition (0)
- 27: 10 Off the Beaten Path ETFs That Everyday Investors (Probably) Haven’t Heard About (1)
- 29: Examples of Kids Using FaceBook & MySpace to Make Millions as Teenage Entrepreneurs (8)
- 31: Weekend Reads: the General Motors vs. Government Motors Edition (6)
- April 2009 (16)
- 02: Raised Garden Beds are an Easy Solution for Recession Gardeners (4)
- 04: April 15 Rapidly Approaching: Don’t Forget to Max Out Your Roth IRA Contributions! (3)
- 06: Home Prices to Fall Another 30%: Analyst Who Called Crash Makes Bearish Call on Real Estate (4)
- 08: GM’s Yukon Denali Hybrid: Worst Greenwashing Campaign Ever? (1)
- 10: Dollar Cost Averaging: Would You Prefer 1 Dart or 12 Darts to Hit the Bullseye? (3)
- 12: Weekend Reads: Three Day Easter Holiday Edition (1)
- 14: Bad Drivers Beware: Local Governments Are Charging ‘Accident Response Fees’. (1)
- 16: Could You Be an Economic Survivalist? (2)
- 17: Jim Cramer Disses Index Funds: ‘In Cramer We Trust’ vs. ‘In Bogle We Trust’? (12)
- 19: Weekend Reads: Productivity Sappers and Tea Baggers Edition (0)
- 21: Vanguard Has 20 Actively Managed Mutual Funds that Beat S&P 500 Index Fund (2)
- 23: 5 Lessons Potential Home Buyers Can Learn from Median Income vs Median Home Price (4)
- 25: Maybe Pacino was Right: Be Careful What Kind Of Leaders You’re Producing (6)
- 26: Weekend Reads: The Dreaded Swine Flu Edition (5)
- 28: Should You Do Business With Unethical Companies? (8)
- 30: What is the Fear Trade? (11)
- March 2009 (18)
- 03: 20 Reasons Why I Love the Recession (29)
- 05: Unwanted and Shunned Dirty Jobs Will Become the Big Money Jobs of the Future (6)
- 07: 20 Ways to Convince Someone to Save More Money (2)
- 08: Weekend Reads and March Madness is Almost Here! (0)
- 10: 20 Ways to Avoid a Scam (5)
- 12: What Does Mark To Market Accounting Mean For You and Your Home’s Value? (1)
- 14: Stop Chasing High Interest Savings Rates with a Rewards Checking Account (21)
- 15: Weekend Reads & Thoughts on Cramer vs. Stewart (5)
- 17: Newsweek Suggests it’s Your Patriotic Duty to Stop Saving and Start Spending (11)
- 18: FixCNBC.com: Petition CNBC to Make Some Content Changes (3)
- 20: Recession Gardens: 10 Easy Herbs & Vegetables You Can Grow at Home to Save Money (20)
- 21: Vanguard Starts a New Investing Blog (2)
- 22: Weekend Reads & Colbert’s Pitchfork Warning to AIG (0)
- 24: Frugality Based Hyperopia: What Purchases Do You Make to Avoid Saver’s Remorse (16)
- 26: When Did $9 Trillion on the National Debt Clock Look So Good? (3)
- 28: Will Water Become More Expensive than Oil? (6)
- 29: Weekend Reads and the Stock Market Retesting the Lows? (0)
- 31: Deadliest Catch Captains Show Off Their Global Economics and Forex Knowledge (4)
- February 2009 (15)
- 02: Municipal Bonds: Time to Invest in Number Two? (1)
- 04: What if We Measured Energy Usage in Lumps of Coal? (3)
- 05: CEO Salary Cap Graphic: Salary Cut to Equal Stock Performance? (4)
- 08: Announcements and Reader Questions (0)
- 10: GM Sends A Cool Billion to Brazil but Reminds Us to Buy American! (2)
- 12: Vulture Investing Watch: Great Example of City Condo’s Selling at Half Price (7)
- 13: An Easy “How To” Tuturial Video for the Non-Twitter User (0)
- 15: Weekend Reads & Mushy Koala Photo (0)
- 17: How Important is Credit? Just Ask the Bank Stocks! (0)
- 18: TED Talks: Juan Enriquez Discusses Economy, Santa Claus Gets Naked & Science 20 Years from Now (0)
- 20: How One Simple Family Mortgage is Tied Into the Global Credit Crisis (1)
- 23: Living Beyond Your Means: School Bus Driver Losing Her $800,000 Home to Foreclosure (51)
- 24: CNBC Originals “House of Cards” Now Available Online (4)
- 26: Avoiding the Bubbles: Knowing when Not to Buy Can Save You Thousands (12)
- 28: Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Suffers Worst Loss Ever (0)
- January 2009 (16)
- 01: To Heck with 2008 – Bring On 2009, and My Resolutions (1)
- 03: Reverse Brain Drain: Foreign Headhunters Taking Full Advantage of U.S. Recession (0)
- 05: Forget Stock Analysis, I’m Using Pat Robertson’s Annual Conversation with God (0)
- 06: The Housing Bubble in All it’s Stupidity Summed Up in this Two Minute Video (0)
- 08: Is it Unethical to Invest in Diseases that Can Be Treated, But Never Cured? (3)
- 11: When the Expense of Plastic Surgery is Justifiable (3)
- 12: A Reminder to Help Those Less Tech Savvy (3)
- 13: Documentary Watch: The Ascent Of Money Airs at PBS. (0)
- 15: The Stock Market Bubble No One Talks About (11)
- 17: How It Feels to Be an American Taxpayer (0)
- 19: Bull and Bear Markets Consistently Appear in 16 Year Supercycle Intervals (13)
- 21: Going Carless Isn’t as Painful as I Suspected (4)
- 24: Cable Bills Too High? Disconnect, Renegotiate Better Rate or Watch TV Online? (13)
- 27: How Much Would You Pay to Voice Your Opinion? (4)
- 29: A How To Video for Watching Netflix On Demand Movies (2)
- 30: Vulture Investing: Buying the Joneses Stuff at Half Price! (12)
- December 2008 (18)
- 01: Discover Card Lowered My Credit Limit… But My Credit Score is 750? (18)
- 02: Ford CEO Mulally’s Drive to Washington Costs Over $20,000 (4)
- 04: Self Employed Workers Getting Turned Down for Mortgages. (2)
- 06: Gift Cards Save 20% to 75% on Post-Holiday Mark Down Sales. (0)
- 07: Best Reads and Impatiently Awaiting Decision on the Big Three Bailout. (3)
- 09: How to Buy Preferred Shares of General Motors or Ford? (0)
- 12: Discussing Retirement with Parents: Is a Comfortable Retirement No Longer an Option? (14)
- 13: Vanguard Offers CDs to Worried Traditional IRA & Roth IRA Investors. (0)
- 14: Best Reads and Finding Mortgage Backed Securities Humor from Dilbert (2)
- 16: Lessons Learned: What Can Madoff’s $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme Teach Us About Investing (2)
- 18: One in Six Underwater Homeowners Can’t Refinance at Historically Low Mortgage Rates (2)
- 19: Tax Loss Harvesting Advice… From My Accountant (3)
- 21: Best Reads & Gauging America’s Animosity Towards the Big Three Automakers (2)
- 23: My Doctor’s Office “Going Paperless” Debut took Twice as Long as Normal (5)
- 25: Merry Christmas from the Stock Market (0)
- 26: Are You a Broke College Student? Get a Dirty Job… I Did! (3)
- 28: How Many Sob Stories Must We Tolerate for Consumer’s Stupidity? (0)
- 30: Pork Barrel Spending Projects Come to Light with Obama’s First Stimulus Package (4)
- November 2008 (12)
- 04: Municipal Bond Funds: The Easiest Way to Find Tax Free Investments. (1)
- 06: Election 2008 Newspapers Become Instant Collectible at Near 12000% Markup Prices. (1)
- 09: 10 Ways to Prove that Frugal Living is Really Green Living in Disguise. (27)
- 11: I.O.U.S.A. The Movie is Free and Now Available on YouTube (10)
- 13: Individual Development Accounts: The Best Poverty Assistance Program that We Never Hear About. (3)
- 15: Financial Planning 101: What To Do with Sudden or Unexpected Cash? (4)
- 17: Lessons Learned: What Has the Economic Crisis of 2008 Taught Me? (0)
- 19: Should General Motors Go the Way of a Gangrenous Limb? (12)
- 21: PBS Finally Gives a 20/20 Hindsight View of the Standard & Poors Rating Scandal. (5)
- 23: Bridging Generational Gaps: T. Boone Pickens Getting Jon Stewart’s Younger Viewer Vote. (2)
- 26: 40th Money Hacks Carnival (21)
- 28: Black Friday Shoppers Kill Walmart Employee: Will this Finally Stop Spendthrift Behavior? (2)
- October 2008 (14)
- 01: Wall Street Bailout Bill: 5 Examples of Wall Street Trickle Down Effects (8)
- 03: Microsoft’s Live Search Cashback Program Saved Me 20% on My Ebay Purchase! (4)
- 05: 60 Minutes Report on Financial Crisis: Wall Street Wasn’t Very Good at Their Job. (2)
- 07: S&P 500 Index Below 1000: Index Funds Nearing Decade Lows Once Again (1)
- 08: AIG Blows $443,000 on Hotel Retreat and Day Spa Treatments after 85 Billion Dollar Bailout! (2)
- 10: My First Real Life Green Energy Project: Switching Home Lighting to CFL Bulbs. (4)
- 13: America In Debt: 24% of American Families are Debt Free! (3)
- 14: Preferred Stock Index Funds: The Future for High Yield Dividend Investors? (1)
- 19: Free Shipping Rewards: Offering Some Relief to Online Bargain Shoppers (1)
- 21: Vanguard CEO Discusses Poor Performance of Index Funds During Last Decade (1)
- 24: Beware Recession Based Advertising: All That Glitters is Not Gold. (24)
- 26: Layaway Plans Begin to Reemerge as Credit Crisis Tightens Grip. (0)
- 27: ING Direct’s CEO: Americans Opening 100,000 New Savings Accounts per Month. (4)
- 29: Presidential Election 2008: A Tax Plan Graphic I Can Finally Understand. (2)
- September 2008 (17)
- 01: Why Index Funds are Bad Investments (45)
- 02: Natural Gas Powered Vehicles paying $0.87 per Gallon? (0)
- 04: Screw You Economics: My Most Hated Stealth Fees and How to Get Around Them. (4)
- 06: All Variable Annuities are Not Created Equal (3)
- 08: Why I’m Saying Goodbye to CDs for 2008! (4)
- 10: OPEC, You, and $100 Oil: What Does It All Mean? (0)
- 11: Disconnecting the Landline or the Cell Phone? (2)
- 13: What Happened to those Evil Oil Speculators? (11)
- 15: Would You Make a Run on Your Bank? (6)
- 16: Vanguard CIO Discusses Index Fund Safety After Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy. (3)
- 18: What Can You Learn from Warren Buffett’s Frugal Shopping Mentality? (1)
- 20: Wall Street Goes Nuts but Index Funds Unchanged. (0)
- 21: California Student Selling Her Virginity to Pay for College. (2)
- 23: Investor Panic Sets New Records for Investment Firm Websites and Call Centers (1)
- 24: Why High Oil Prices Should Not be a Factor in the Presidential Election. (0)
- 25: Renting College Textbooks Cuts Higher Education Costs Up To 75% (9)
- 29: Does a Stock Market Plunge Affect Your Disposable Income? (1)
- August 2008 (9)
- 19: What a time to start a blog! (0)
- 19: Top 10 Financial Moves I Ever Made (2)
- 20: Home Swapping on the Rise at Craigslist. (4)
- 21: Firing Up the Fireplace: Reducing the Electric Bill (0)
- 22: Perfect Time to Buy an SUV? (0)
- 25: Study Shows Women Saving Less than Men for Retirement! (0)
- 27: I.O.U.S.A – New Documentary says America Going Broke! (1)
- 28: Stopping Junk Mail In Its Tracks In 10 Minutes (0)
- 30: Buying an Investment Property in a College Town. (0)
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