Getting Ahead for the Little Guy
A number of my investments lately have turned into – well, learning experiences.
Maybe it’s just a sign o’ the times – and the times, they are a suckin’ – but it’s the kind of thing to give a newbie investor a complex.
I got to be an “organizer” for a bank. An organizer is kinda like [...]
In options trading, there are now two kinds of publicly traded options – “puts” and “calls.”
I’ve talked about calls before. Relatively speaking, calls are easy. They are a little like “stocks on steroids.” Except their price is based on several variables besides the price of the underlying stock. But, in general, if the stock price [...]
It seems tremendously ironic (and amusing) to me that the Government is arguably bypassing rule of law to force a sale of Chrysler to … Fiat.
Just sayin’.
Seems like “secured debt” doesn’t mean what it used to mean anymore.
Great guest post at Get Rich Slowly:
Why I Love the Roth IRA
Well worth readin’. It has some great stuff on the advantages of a Roth IRA over the traditional, what potential hazards there are, and even some stuff I didn’t know about inheriting an IRA (while still subject to estate taxes, the Roth remains tax-free [...]
Shortly after finishing Scratch Beginnings, I read Barbara Ehrenreich’s best-selling book, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. I guess I really read them out of order, because Scratch Beginnings is actually more of a response to Ehrenreich’s book. So maybe I’m tainted. But like both authors, I’m going to just embrace my [...]