The Holidays can bring out the spendiness in a lot of us. It can be tempting to want to play Santa Claus with all our loved ones and friends. I certainly have…
Category: Money & Investing
Overcoming the Silent Killer
As I wrote last year, we bring our clothes to be dried (we have a washer at home) at the nearby laundromat. This usually has worked out quite well, especially since the…
Where’s My Golden Parachute?
“I have enough money to retire comfortably for the rest of my life. Problem is, I have to die next week.” –Anonymous “When I was young, I thought that money was the…
This is Why We Invest in Stocks
I just finished re-reading Burton Malkiel’s investing classic, “A Random Walk Down Wall Street.” As I wrote the other day, Malkiel espouses the virtues of the Index Fund as a vehicle for…
The Economics of Sitting at the Cafe
Today I was at the cafe and the idea for today’s blog occurred to me. Supply and demand influences our perception of the value of things all the time. In fact, even…
The Gospel of the Index Fund
Having been an investor for over four and a half years now, I suppose I may not be exactly a “newbie” anymore. However, that hardly makes me an expert either, and I…
The Compounding Power of One’s Efforts
I’m fond of a good saying. Here are a few that I like: “Watch your pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.” “The oak sleeps in the acorn.” “If one…
I Love Executing Well-Organized Plans
For me, today’s theme has been “organization.” Specifically, getting organized in the following ways: Shopping: My wife and I did our bi-monthly shopping trip, which today also included several more stops than…
Thou Shalt Not Be a Financial Prognosticator!
Recently I have fiddling with this thing called the Portfolio Visualizer. It is an excellent website with brilliant simulators for understanding past performance of investments. It has something called a Backtest Portfolio,…
Financial Perfectionism: You’ve Been Spotted!
Tonight I was sitting out in the front porch with my wife, and I was telling her about the recent obsessing I had been doing over my investments (I know, doesn’t that…