Archive for January, 2008
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The Patriots And The Business Of Winning
If you are one of the many people who haven’t cut the cable television, you might want to set your VCR or DVR for to tape CNBC on Sunday 7PM ET. CNBC is going to air a special called Touchdown!: The Patriots And The Business Of Winning. Regular readers of this site, know that I’ve [...]
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Lending Club Gets a Makeover
I logged into my Lending Club account yesterday and was surprised to see quite a few new features. New My Account Screen The My Account screen has a great loan summary area. It’s divided into about 4 main areas. On the left you have loan status informing you how current or behind your loans are. [...]
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Buying More Private Stock
I got wrapped up in writing a few other articles; I should have written about this large investment earlier. For the second time in twelve months, I made a very risky investment buying stock options. (You can read about my first risky investment here.) I have invested over $5,000 this time. I bought the stock [...]
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Net Worth Update – January 2008
I missed posting this in the middle of the month; I wanted to get some articles posted last week that I felt were more interesting. I did manage to grab a snap shot of my accounts from the 15th. With the stock market dropping like a ball on New Year’s Eve, I knew it wasn’t [...]
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Weekend Links – Martin Luther King Day Edition
It’s Martin Luther King day. For some that means you get the day off. Others have to work a normal day. Either way, it’s worth reading up on some Martain Luther King Jr. history. When you are done with that catch up on some personal finance links. Jeremy doesn’t like the idea of a 401k [...]
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Did Lazy Man Hurt Erin Burnett’s Career?
Earlier this week, a reader wrote me to tell me that the media is exploding over Erin Burnett’s Men’s Health article. I don’t know how I missed all the news, but I give many thanks go to Sam for updating me. Regular readers may remember that I wrote Why I Would Not Impress CNBC’s Erin [...]
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Discussions About a Sudden Expense
Yesterday, I wrote how my wife’s friend getting married is a sudden expense for us. If you haven’t read that article I highly suggest you do, or this article might seem out of place. I got an amazing amount of comments on that post, I want to take a moment to thank everyone who took [...]
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A Sudden Expense Changes Everything
Recently my wife and I dined out a few times. While no particular meal was expensive, the aggregate of the three meals equaled 2 weeks worth of groceries. I didn’t think about it too much at the time. Everything changed with an e-mail my wife received on Sunday. In her words, “The color drained from [...]
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Sundry Topics: Thanking Readers and Website Changes
I want to thank everyone for their votes for Performancing’s Best Money Blog. The competition was tough and two of those competitors have more readers than many cities. The voting came to a somewhat predictable conclusion with those two, The Simple Dollar and Get Rich Slowly taking the top two spots. I know that Ramit’s [...]
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Chat Live With Lazy Man Today
[Update: You'll need to be a member of the site to join the chat. Sorry about that. I didn't know this going in and don't like it any more than you do. Perhaps you use Bug Me Not for quick access.] For those of you who can’t get enough of my near daily postings, I’ll [...]
