May 2, 2011 · 1 comment
in Apps, financial education, financial fitness, international stock market, investment tools, lifehack, market reports, media, money management, news and updates, portfolio, stocks, video
iPad-owning investors, take note of the Wall Street Journal’s new MarketWatch Market Data iPad App – you have it on your iPhone, you might as well get it on your iPad now, too – You’ll get the same information you see on the iPhone app, only much clearer and easier to read and navigate.
The MarketWatch [...]
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August 19, 2010 · 3 comments
in DIY, bills, bonds, business, careers, cashflow, debt, distributions, diversification, dividends, earnings, employment income, financial planning, hedging, income, investing (general), lifehack, money management, passive income, paycheck, real estate, risk, self-employed, side income, wealth protection, wealthbuilding
It’s bad enough to initially depend on just one source of income, but it’s even worse to not invest it or diversify it such that you protect it over time. In other words, there is more than one way to diversify your income.
(1) You can diversify your sources of income so that you have, say, [...]
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August 10, 2010 · 3 comments
in Lists, behavioral finance, cashflow, charity, coins, discipline, financial fitness, frugal tips, lifehack, money management, penny, savings, tips
Have a problem with too many leftover coins (yeah, you could have worse problems)? Too lazy to roll up your coins and deposit them in a bank account? Or do you toss aside your coins because they’re so heavy to carry around, and then find yourself breaking bills all the time just to get a [...]
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April 3, 2010 · 4 comments
in DIY, Repairs, achievement, budgets, education, frugal tips, lifehack, money management, productivity, purchases, savings, sustainability
Everyone knows that saving time and money (or being more efficient and effective with your time and money, if you will) is a key barometer of having control over your life (call it success, or productivity, or whichever you prefer). Life is a string of time and money yields the string of options and actions [...]
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This post is really directed to anyone studying full-time or living on their own and working so much that the mere thought of making healthy meals tires you out. Grad students’ situations just exemplify the worst of it.
The great thing about being single is being able to cook all of your own food (to put [...]
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January 15, 2010 · 12 comments
in diversification, economy, education, emergencies, lifehack, market crash, risk, self-protection, survival, sustainability, unemployment, wealth protection, world order
Do your “transferable skills” include survival skills? If you work in financial markets, accounting, tourism, real estate, university-level teaching (certain fields), administration, human resources, and a number of other fields whose central activities are not connected in any real way to the basic “stuff” of living, it is more likely that you are lacking in [...]
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