“The markets are working fine, but they’re giving people answers that they don’t like, so people cry market failure.”
I love it.
The Audacity of Doing Nothing
Getting Ahead for the Little Guy
“The markets are working fine, but they’re giving people answers that they don’t like, so people cry market failure.”
I love it.
The Audacity of Doing Nothing
While getting a house dropped in my lap and becoming a landlord quite by surprise was a little hairy, I was comforted by the fact that my investment partners had just placed a new tenant on the property with a six-month contract. While the rent was down a little bit under the economic conditions, in [...]
Looking over my statements from my bank – formerly Washington Mutual, now Chase – I discovered that my already-pathetic interest payments on my savings account (which we use for short-term saving for a Hawaii trip) have dropped even further. Like REALLY low. Only a penny.
I went online to figure out what accounts for such an [...]
Yes, I’m an ETF junkie. You can be one too. Check it out:
ETFs at the Stock Encyclopedia
Find a fund based on vehicle, industry sector, style, or region. This doesn’t appear to be an exhaustive list, but it has more ETFs than I knew existed.
Nifty!
When one of the partners running the fund where you’ve invested a significant portion of your portfolio (including borrowed money) gives you a call requesting a private meeting, you can probably guess that it’s not going to be a good thing.
Nevertheless, as this happened to me, I tried to convince myself that it might actually [...]