Archive for January, 2009
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009Here’s this week’s Ten for Tuesday. Enjoy! 1. My friend, Lindsay, details how she and her husband are handling allowances. 2. We have a food pyramid so why not an asset allocation pyramid too? 3. Rebuild Your Nestegg – 17 moves to secure your future now. 4. Jeremy agrees with Robert Kiyosaki—again… – Look for [...]
Highlights From the Part 1 of the Barron’s Roundtable
Monday, January 12th, 2009Each year, Barron’s invites various investment experts* to their roundtable, asks them a bunch of questions, and then publishes it in three parts. Here are some highlights from Part 1 of the annual Barron’s Roundtable ($): Scott Black: A lot of the stock market’s performance will be contingent on public policy. The consumer is dead. [...]
Blog of the Week – Crackerjack Greenback
Monday, January 12th, 2009This week’s Blog of the Week is the Christian personal finance blog, Crackerjack Greenback, which was submitted to me by Mike over at the ObliviousInvestor. There is content over at Crackerjack Greenback that is useful, regardless of your religious views. For instance, his plan for starting a business after being laid off is worth reading [...]
A Look at the 2009 Federal Income Tax Brackets
Friday, January 9th, 2009Here’s a quick look at the 2009 Federal Income Tax Brackets along with a comparison to 2008. Not a lot of changes. Source: Wall Street Journal Source: Wall Street Journal The standard deduction will increase to $11,400 from $10,900 for joint filers ($5,700 from $5,450 for single filers). The personal exemption for 2009 is $3,650* [...]
I’m Going to Read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” and You Should Too!
Friday, January 9th, 2009I have owned a copy of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged* for many years now but have never completely read it. I have started it several times but always seemed to lose interest or something has come up to keep me from finishing the book. It’s a long book (something like 1,000 pages) and I don’t [...]
Friday’s Food for Thought – The Power of a Smile
Friday, January 9th, 2009I meant to post this a long time ago but am just now getting around to it. Back when I was reading Brent Kessel’s book, It’s Not About the Money*, I came across this story on page 226 about the power of a smile: There is a lovely fable about a man standing on the [...]
John Bogle’s Six Lessons for Investors
Thursday, January 8th, 2009John Bogle had an excellent opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal titled Six Lessons for Investors. His lessons (along with my commentary): 1. Beware of market forecasts, even by experts. – His point being that forecasts are nearly always optimistic and although sometimes they may be right, they are more often wrong. 2. Never [...]
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