From the monthly archives:
What?! A mental emergency fund? Yes; this is an analogy I thought of while walking on campus today. Just as we want to have a savings fund large enough to be able to handle seriously unexpected expenses, accidents, and the unfortunate events of our lives, so too we need to have some sort of psychological [...]
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This post is inspired by a tweet that @libertygirl3 made last night on Twitter. She said “If you want to feel rich, count the things you have that money can’t buy.”
Immediately I was struck by the simple truth of this statement. This time, it didn’t hit me as a cliche or adage at all. This [...]
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Probably one of the newest (started at end of March 2009) but most totally fired-up additions to the personal finance blogspace, I’m glad to have had the chance to talk to Baker from ManVsDebt. Baker’s exciting story is that he and his wife (and their daughter!) are going to be moving to Australia in June, [...]
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Anyone who’s ever lived solely off part-time work, contracting, scholarships, royalties, freelance or other means of self-employment knows what it’s like to not receive a steady paycheck. You might be financially free by definition, but you still might not be bringing in a steady paycheck. Royalties from books through a traditional publisher might only reach [...]
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You may have heard of the term “seasonal investing.” Myself, I was just introduced to this investment strategy over the past year through Brooke Thackray, MBA, CFP and president of alphaMountain Investments. His firm publishes reports that “use seasonal analysis to give investors and money managers an edge in the markets.”
So what is seasonal investing?
The [...]
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So, we’re finishing up the eighth straight week of the bear market rally of March-April 2009. Everyone’s asking how long it will last. Last week, Schiff mentioned the rally in passing, but this week he addressed it head on. Simply put:
both some bears and some bulls are wrong going ahead
stocks are up in nominal [...]
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Last week I talked with Brandon from The Almost Millionaire; this week I’m posing some of the same questions to Four Pillars, author of the great (Canadian) personal finance blog, Four Pillars. Four Pillars is coming up to his second anniversary blogging this May. Congrats! You can subscribe to his free feed here to get [...]
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