Archive for February, 2007
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Prosper Changes: What They Mean to Me and You
I got an e-mail yesterday from Prosper’s CEO Chris Larsen. I wasn’t alone, I’m sure that at least every lender got one. As Prosper gears up for it’s first birthday, they’ve found the need to make a few changes. Here I will outline them and what they mean.
New Customer Service
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The $25,000 Meal
After reading about Get Rich Slowly’s post about how sometimes it’s okay to splurge, I came across this $25,000 meal.
“Wine lovers regularly organize exorbitantly expensive tastings in New York, London and Japan but such events are not as common in Thailand, where it would take the average schoolteacher five years to earn $25,000.
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My Financial Week in Review #5
Quick hits on my financial week:
I finally invested my 2006 Roth IRA. I decided that I would go with a foreign markets ETF (ticker symbol EFA). While I was in the account, I realized that I had some old holdings like Palm, Checkpoint software, and AMD. I had them long enough [...]
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The Simple Dollars’ 31 Days of Finance Fixes - Day 7-12
Yesterday I learned exactly how much an hour worth of work is to me. This is very important. When Energi Gal says that I’m not doing my share of the cleaning and suggests that we get a cleaning lady, I can figure out if this is really worthwhile to me. Today I’ll [...]
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A New Carnival is in Town
Making Our Way has hosted the first edition of Carnival of Wealth Accumulation which is targeted at those in the 30s and 40s. Of course, Lazy Man and Money contributed. Check it out, and while you are there, I’d read When not to buy a house. It’s a nicely written article [...]
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