Archive for September, 2008
Luckily I Cashed Out My Investments Last Week For A Lower Risk Opportunity Outside the Country
It’s days like this that I can’t help but walk around the house smiling from ear to ear. Why? You may ask. Well, it just so happens that I recently cashed out over $100,000 in investments to use for an alternative investment. Let me explain. A couple weeks ago I got an email from a [...]
Raising a Financially Savvy Child
My wife, daughter and I were sitting at the breakfast table this morning when my daughter, who’s 5, randomly told my wife, "There are a lot of advertisements that are just trying to take our money." Over the last year or so when we are reading the paper and looking at advertisements I’ve tried to [...]
It’s Hard To Ignore The Wall Street Mess
I have to admit I’m spending a lot of time reading the latest news about the potential bailout on Wall Street. The latest is that they are considering adding executive compensation caps to the proposal. I still haven’t read anything about limiting the power and scope that this proposal would give to the executive branch. [...]
Should We Let The Greedy Bastards Fail?
David at My Two Dollars has a couple of posts that I was going to do myself but he did a fine job so I’m just going to link to him. I am finding myself more and more angry that we are looking at more than a Trillion dollar bailout for Wall Street. If they [...]
Too Many Clothes In Her Closet So She’s Standing In Line To Buy More!
I couldn’t resist pointing this out. There is a grand opening of a new H&M store in Seattle today. People waited in line for hours to get in to this store. Never mind the fact that there is an existing store 10 miles south of this location. What really made me shake my head was [...]
Responsible Citizens Being Dragged Down By the Reckless
Well, here we are. We’ve been talking about it for months on blogs all around the Internet. All of us that are managing our money in a responsible way have been wondering how much of an impact the irresponsible could have on our financial well being. It seems to be slowly coming clear now and [...]
It’s Hard To Predict Which Company Is Most Secure
As I watch the meltdown of major financial firms I’m paying particularly close attention to WAMU. They have a huge presence where I’m at and many thousands of people work for them around here. At one point I considered being a customer of Washington Mutual before I discovered credit unions. A few years ago, a [...]
Wamu, AIG And A Side of Lehman
What a horrendous market this week. I guess it’s not really a surprise that things are headed south. I’ve been worrying about the overall economy and all of our country’s debt for a long time. So, if a simple guy like me is worrying about it, there must be a real problem. I’m actually not [...]
Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 – Free and Very NICE
Last night I found myself wanting to test out some software. I’ve been playing around with various DJ software. Most of the versions that I’ve downloaded are demos and I really didn’t want to fill up my Vista machine with a bunch of junky software. The solution for this was to download Microsoft Virtual PC [...]
What Do People Spend Their Money On?
This isn’t very surprising to me but it’s definitely interesting to look at. People in the US spend more of their discretionary income than anyone. This is well worth looking at. You can definitely deduce one thing from the recreation chart. People in other countries tend to focus on experiences more than they focus on [...]