Archive for the ‘Investing’ Category
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
You've heard of the magic of compounding, right?
If not, here's a quick version. Let's say you have a savings account that earns 1% per month. (Don't laugh too hard. My dad had one that paid this rate at one point.) Let's say also that you put in $1,000 at the ...
Posted in Banking, Investing, Making Money | 4 Comments »
Thursday, October 13th, 2011
I met Mike Piper of The Oblivious Investor briefly at FinCon11 and he came bearing gifts. (I guess I was The Oblivious Conference Attendee and did no such thing myself.) I snagged two copies of his newest book, Can I Retire? (I'll offer the second copy to a randomly-picked subscriber ...
Posted in Book Reviews, Investing, Retirement | No Comments »
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
A friend and I got to chatting about investments over lunch recently. After lamenting about the stock market, 401(k)s, and so forth, we talked a bit about precious metals. Like most people whom I've talked with about this subject -- including myself, I suppose -- we wish that we would ...
Posted in Investing, Precious Metals | 9 Comments »
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
This Kiplinger feature on MSN has a number of good ways that we waste money. Slide 12 of this series (these aren't my favorite ways of presenting things, but I see how it generates more ad impressions for MSN!) has the following suggestion:
If you're stashing your cash in a traditional ...
Posted in Investing, Making Money, Retirement, Saving | 2 Comments »
