Archive for September, 2009
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009I had to take down the other post because I made an error. I’ll fix it and have it back up in a bit. Sorry for the confusion.
Your Withdrawal Rate Matters
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009Longtime AFM readers will remember the simulated retirement portfolio I put together with exchange-traded funds. I have been tracking the portfolio since 2004, which was the first year that all the exchange-traded funds in the portfolio were available.
As you can see from the graphic below, the withdrawal amount can have a drastic [...]
Beth’s Review of “The Mommy Manifesto”
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed Kim Lavine’s The Mommy Manifesto: How to Use Our Power to Think Big, Break Limitations and Achieve Success* (see This Guy’s Thoughts on Kim Lavine’s “The Mommy Manifesto”).
While reading the book, I thought that the book was written by a woman for women, that it would be cool [...]
FINALLY Got My Computer Back!
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009Last Wednesday night I was watching Seinfeld. Cramer said something and I wasn’t quite sure what he said so I went on the internet to look it up. I had previously bookmarked a website that contained scripts from all the Seinfeld episodes (yes, I’m a Seinfeld nut). Anyway, I was sitting there [...]
What’s Your Favorite Personal Finance (or Money-Related) Book of All Time?
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009I need your help…
Please email (JLP – at – AllFinancialMatters.com) me your favorite personal finance (or money-related) book of all time.
I’ll put a list together and post it next week. If you are a blogger, please include your blog’s URL along with a link to a book review you might have done on the [...]
The Government Can
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009This has been out for awhile but I just saw it tonight. Pretty funny:
Follow AFM on Twitter
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Okay, I’m not sure what Twitter is all about but I figured since nearly every other blogger has a Twitter badge, I had better get one too. So, as you can see on the upper right hand side of this page, there is a brand new fancyTwitter badge (or you can use the one [...]
How Do We Exit The Bailout?
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009I read this in The Economist:
ECONOMIC policymakers across the rich world face two delicate balancing acts over the new few years. The first, involving monetary policy, is being widely discussed and carefully planned by teams of technocrats. Central bankers must keep their balance-sheets big and interest rates low for long enough to prevent deflation setting [...]
The History of Inflation
Monday, September 21st, 2009Here is something for all you chart and graphics lovers.
I took the information available from this BLS.gov’s CPI page and made a couple of graphics.
This first one shows the percent change in the yearly CPI beginning in 1920:
What’s really interesting is this line graph, which tracks the CPI in dollar terms (assuming $1.00 at the [...]
S&P 20-Year Rolling Period Returns (1926 – 2008)
Friday, September 18th, 2009Okay, here is an updated version of a post I did a couple of years ago where I took the returns for the S&P and analyzed them by various rolling-periods (5-years, 10-years, and 20-years). Today, I want to look at 20-year rolling-period returns. Check out the graphic I prepared (you can click on [...]
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