Archive for October, 2008
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Six Reasons to Love This Economy (Really. I’m Serious!)
“Larry Bird is not walking through that door, fans. Kevin McHale is not walking through that door, and Robert Parish is not walking through that door… all the negativity that’s in this town sucks… And it stinks.” – Rick Pitino
Any Celtics fan, and many NBA fans, remember this famous rant from Rick Pitino. [...] -
Blog Action Day: Thoughts on Poverty
(Last year, I decided to join the crowd and post about Blog Action Day’s topic, saving the environment. This year the cause for Blog Action Day is poverty. As a personal finance blogger, I felt that it would border on irresponsibility to not join the cause. One of the charities they [...]
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Zopa US is Dead
I hope you really like to hear about peer-to-peer lending news. Earlier today, I wrote about how Lending Club opened for business again and just before Prosper died (not in the traditional sense, just closed it’s doors for a potentially “several months” while it passes a few steps with the SEC).
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Prosper is Dead
Just a few hours after I received an e-mail from Lending Club announcing that they were open again, Prosper sent an e-mail saying that they were beginning their quiet period. This is just over 6 months after Lending Club entered it’s quiet period. I believe that Lending Club got out of it’s [...]
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Lending Club Opens For Business Again
Lending Club has opened for business again. They come back with a partnership from FOLIOfn. This partnership, as I understand it (and I could be wrong here), seems to have sped up their process with the SEC. It also allows them to have a secondary market – a place where you [...]
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Every Restaurant Wants to Save Me Money
I couldn’t help but notice restaurants have a new plan to try to drum up business in these tough times. It’s a good thing they have some ideas, because one of the first things people cut when money is tight is going out to eat. Let’s look at what just a few [...]
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Rationally Irrational
A friend called me up last night. He was open about how spooked he was when he looked his retirement accounts and found that 30% (or more) of his hard-earned money had disappeared – with nothing to show for it. The way he put it, I really couldn’t argue with him. [...]
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Weekend Links – New Kids On The Block Edition
On Friday, I took one for the team and went with my wife to the New Kids on The Block Edition. Normally, I wouldn’t mind too much, but I had to give up seeing the end of the Red Sox playoff game. When you watch something around 120 regular season games, you [...]
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Getting Ready to Buy Some Stock
Wednesday my wife said, “You know we have a lot of cash sitting around, we should start to invest it while everything is cheap.” It’s amazing how I can write about this stuff everyday, while she spends about 4 minutes a year on it, and we both come to the same conclusion. [...]
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The Worst Gifts We Have Ever Gotten
Sometimes I have an idea for a particular article and I have think twice, before broaching the topic. Today, I thought about it four times. What kind of ungrateful turd I must be to talk about getting bad gifts! I firmly believe in not looking a gift horse in the mouth. [...]
