Archive for August, 2010
Next Entries »The Basics: Setting and Reaching Financial Goals
Friday, August 6th, 2010One of the most important areas of personal finance is setting and reaching financial goals. Why are financial goals important? Without them, it’s likely you won’t save and invest your money wisely. Having goals tends to help us focus on what’s important. Without them, we tend to allow life to just happen to us. What [...]
Interesting Monthly Total Return Stats for the S&P 500 Index
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010Long-time AFM readers know that I have a database (it’s actually an Excel file but database sounds fancier) with total return data for the S&P 500 Index going all the way back to 1926. For some crazy reason, I love playing with that data. I religiously keep the data up-to-date on a monthly basis. What [...]
12 Days of Hell
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010I woke Friday, July 23, to a couple of emails from my (former) host, dreamhost. They informed me that they disabled AFM due to a DDoS attack targeted directly at AFM. And, since I was on a shared network, they had to disable AFM so that it wouldn’t affect other blogs. Very frustrating. Dreamhost was [...]
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