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Bear Market - Never Mind 2008-07-02 09:15:35 The stock market dipped below the magic 20 percent needed to call it a bear market yesterday. Media outlets were quick to throw up their bear market headlines, but the markets rallied and exposed the headline game as a gimmick with flashy words. Read more:Market
Iggyshouse Down! 2008-07-02 06:43:00 Some of you have followed along as we try and sell our house without a real estate agent. I have documented how we were using Iggyshouse.com to this. But, the site has been down for the last several days. I was finally able to find this article suggesting that this is not a temporary glitch.
Needless [...]
A Financial Advisor Makes Money 2008-07-18 08:42:45 Today’s inspiration comes courtesy of All Financial
Matters (a solid blog with good hard numbers data) who notes that a Money
Magazine article called “The Mole” discusses how just because a financial advisor says he puts his clients first doesn’t mean he does. Really? Did I miss something? If it says “I put my clients [...]
Great Minds Think Along the Same Lines 2008-07-11 15:27:10 Unbelievable. I grabbed my trusty notebook this morning and wrote a post for the Finance Gourmet from one of the many topics I have listed in there. Basically, I wrote about how actually saving some money is more important than learning all the tricks to investing money, particularly when you don’t have much money to [...] Read more:Great
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Personal Finance Basics 2008-07-11 08:55:20 Like trying to setup a fancy exercise routine before commiting to regular exercise sessions, trying to take on fancy investment ideas before building up solid savings is doomed to failure. Here is how to make it happen now. Read more:Personal
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SEC Advisory Committee Recommends Ways to Improve Financial Reporting 2008-08-04 12:13:49 The SEC became concerned that financial reporting and disclosure was in need of some smoothing out and improvement, so in true government fashion, it formed an advisory committee to explore ways to improve financial reporting for investors.
You may recall that I mocked the whole thing based on the fact that A LOT of that complexity [...] Read more:Advisory
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Best Online Bank Rates 2008-07-29 23:24:12 Ok, I get asked all the time about where to get the best rates for a savings account. First off, you want a money market account, not a savings account. Money market accounts pay better rates in exchange for restrictions that should be very easy for you to meet.
The Online Banks
Next, if you are purely [...] Read more:Rates
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Major Conversion 2008-10-15 17:01:10 I’ll be moving the now hybrid version of Finance Gourmet to an all Wordpress format. So, it will look very different soon.
Comments on the market, selling the house, and my small business(es) coming tonight, and the rest of this week. Read more:Major
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