Archive for the ‘Investing’ Category
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Jim posted a bit back about shutting off the financial news and watching lolcats. Synopsis: If the market news makes your stomach churn, just put your brain on autopilot for a while. I've checked out ICanHasCheezburger and FailBlog and they're pretty amusing. No, actually, some of the posts are downright ...
Posted in Investing | 4 Comments »
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Prosper.com is currently in a quiet period during which it will not accept new lenders or new loan commitments from existing lenders. They state that they are registering promissory notes with the appropriate regulatory agencies, which may be offered and sold to lenders. The primary market -- as is was ...
Posted in Investing, Making Money | 6 Comments »
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
A few billion here, a few billion there ... pretty soon the bailouts add up to some real money! Financial stocks are getting junked. Maybe your portfolio has a few. Maybe they're worthless now. If that money is gone, it's gone. But if you have a job (as ...
Posted in Investing, Making Money | 5 Comments »
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
As I was surfing around some other money blogs I ran across an investor who just bought some silver. He weighed a 10-ounce silver bar and found that "strangely" it weighed 10.9 ounces. His scale is fairly accurate -- probably better than a tenth ounce. What he actually measured ...
Posted in Investing, Precious Metals | 6 Comments »
