Archive for October, 2006
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Prosper Plan Just Getting Going
I’ve been putting together my investing plan on Prosper. I transferred $500 more dollars there in the past week and a half. It’s been a little difficult getting the rates on the loans that I used to, but I’m still doing okay. I’ve got $100 already lent, $250 pending, and $150 in [...]
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Poker - is it a sport?
After Reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad’s post on poker being a competitive sport, I found myself writing a comment. It soon got a bit longer than I had intended, so decided to make a post instead.
I may agree on the competitive aspect of poker, but I’m not so sure I’d agree on it being [...]Popularity: 1% [?]
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Lazy Man’s Trust Fund
David B of How Do People Get Rich points out the power of compound interest. I don’t know if I’ve directly discussed it in this blog - I may have taken it for granted that if you found me your fairly well versed in a few basic principles of investing. If you need [...]
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Wedding Registry for People with Everything
For those that haven’t been following, I’m getting married next year. Today we are heading out to Macy’s to set up our wedding registry. There’s only one small problem. We have no clue what to register for. When we met, we each owned our own condos and getting to a point [...]
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Sector ETFs in your Portfolio
Consumerism Commentary points out a Money Magazine article about using ETFs as a way to round out your portfolio. Here’s a quote from the Money Magazine article:
In addition, if you held such funds then, you had comparatively little invested in out-of-favor energy and basic-materials stocks, which became the stars of this decade. ETFs allow [...]Popularity: 1% [?]
