Archive for April, 2008
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Reminder to Bloggers: Submit Articles to the Carnival of P2P Lending
It’s time to submit any articles you have written about P2P Lending in April to the carnival of P2P lending. This edition’s host will be Rocket Finance. I bet a lot of bloggers out there wrote about some big news that came out from a particular P2P Lending company.
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Apologies to SmartyPig
On Friday I went a little off the handle reviewing SmartyPig’s registration process. I got frustrated by the many security steps that I had to take before finally getting locked out because my information didn’t match the information in Equifax/SmartyPig’s database. What I should have said is that many online banking security systems are not [...]
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Links: New Redesign Edition
You may have noticed that Lazy Man and Money and Lazy Man and Health have undergone a redesign recently. I have gotten some excellent feedback thus far, including my suggests on how to improve it further. I can always use more feedback, so if you have an idea, please consider sharing it with me via [...]
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Why You Won’t Read a SmartyPig Review Today
A couple of weeks back the fine folks at SmartyPig wrote me to tell me about their new service. They even offered me a $50 gift card to either try the service or give away to a reader. I decided to keep it for three reasons: I have had a bad history with giveaways in [...]
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Lending Club is Dead
[Update: It looks rumors of Lending Club's death was premature. It was actually my best investment last year. You can sign up at Lending Club.] I, like many other Lending Club members, received a distressing e-mail a couple of days ago (Lending Club Reviewed). I waited until now to sort out how I feel about [...]
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Thoughts on Middle Class
I came across what’s wrong with being middle class by Mrs. Micah the other day. It’s a simply and beautiful question. Some of my closest friends who are doctors, lawyers, and financial Wall Street somethings or others. (I can never really figure out what the Wall Street guy does, but I think it involves TPS [...]
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We Are Only Dancing on This Earth for a Short While
[This particular article is a little lacking on personal finance. Sometimes the personal is more important than the finance - this is one of those days. Please give me the benefit of the doubt for a day or two to bring it back to personal finance.] A few months back I bought a used iPod [...]
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Major League Baseball and The Onion of Evil
I made fairly sizable purchase last Friday. I called up Comcast, my cable operator and said, “Yes, I’d like to sign up for the MLB Extra Innings package.” My wife and I will pay $160 to watch the next six month of our favorite team, the Boston Red Sox from our San Francisco area home. [...]
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Links: Lending Club Interview
Debtkid from Lending Club approached me about doing an interview for them. I’m generally very open to doing interviews for other sites and this was no exception. He came at me with some questions that required me to be more serious than I would normally be on Lazy Man and Money. If you are a [...]
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Inflation
