Archive for July, 2010
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Friday, July 16th, 2010Just thought I’d give you guys an update on Beth’s fundraiser for suicide prevention. I blogged about this last week. Unfortunately, the post got buried so lots of you probably didn’t see it. Anyway, I just want to remind you that she’s still looking for donations. When I posted about this, she had raised $400. [...]
Book GIVEAWAY: “The College Solution” by Lynn O’Shaughnessy
Friday, July 16th, 2010Affiliate Link This week’s giveaway is a copy of Lynn O’Shaughnessy’s The College Solution: A Guide for Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price*. For those of you not familiar with Lynn’s work, she writes The College Solution blog for Moneywatch. She wrote a guest post titled, Identifying a College’s Financial Fingerprint, [...]
Reader Question: How Do I Calculate the Periodic Return on a Negative Number?
Friday, July 16th, 2010Just received this comment on this post. The question: Came across this post and had a question….how do you calculate your PRR for the time period when the Annualized PRR is a negative number?? When you enter a negative number into the Excel IRR function you get an error because you can’t raise a negative [...]
What Are Your Thoughts on the Financial Reform Bill?
Thursday, July 15th, 2010As you can probably suspect, I’m having some issues with the finance reform bill. Granted, this article stresses conservative’s dissatisfation with the bill. But, I have to agree on a couple of things. For one, there’s this: The bill would create more than 20 “offices of minority and women inclusion” at the Treasury, Federal Reserve [...]
5 Tips for Saving Energy in Your Family Room
Thursday, July 15th, 2010Here are 5 energy-saving tips I read this morning in this post. 1. Reconsider that plasma TV. A typical plasma TV (less than 40 inches) consumes 441 kilowatt hours of electricity per year, according to ACEEE. That translates into about $50 (based on 11.3 cents per kilowatt hour). Next up are TiVo devices at $41 [...]
Banks Getting Back Into Risky Lending?
Thursday, July 15th, 2010From today’s WSJ: Shirley Davis, a 66-year-old retired phone-company administrator who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., is more than $33,000 in debt, earns just $2,414 a month and filed for bankruptcy in June. Shortly before that, she ripped open an envelope from Capital One Financial Corp., which pitched her a credit card even though it sued [...]
Teen Banking (Our Experience)
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010Last February, my youngest son turned 13. To celebrate this momentous occasion, I took the boys to Wells Fargo to get them Teen Checking Accounts. They had been using Youth Cash Cards, which were nice but had a couple of drawbacks: 1. They could not deposit checks into their accounts. So, I had to cash [...]
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