Simple Questions, Simple Answers

If Glinda from the Wizard of Oz were a Wall Street money mogul, she’d be wearing a pinstriped dress suit, striding across the room with two Blackberries to her head, with a personal assistant trailing her…
Her million-dollar question: “Are you a Good Borrower, or a Bad Borrower?”
Well, not really… but if she asked, how would [...]

8 Financial Milestones By 30

As I was clearing out my reader the other day I stumbled upon an interesting article on MSN titled “6 Financial Milestones before 30.” The article addresses 6 milestones you should either hit, or have a plan for by reaching the age of 30. They are:

Clean up the credit cards
Own a home
Obtain Marketable skills
Contribute to [...]

RSS

I had an epic fail over the last few weeks on the website. Our RSS numbers dropped big time because no one was getting the feed!
I’ve corrected the RSS issues, and we have migrated over to google feedproxy from feedburner. Please update your feeds to the new address by clicking the subscribe button on top, [...]

20 Ways a 20-Something Can Go Green

Since this whole “green” trend started, there have been a ton of articles about simple ways to go “green,” about saving green (money) by going “green,” and so on, so forth.
However, what I realized is that not everyone around my age can do all of those things. As a matter of fact, unless you already [...]

Quick Recap

So what was the deal with yesterday? We had another massive drop in the stock market; the Dow was -733.08 points, Nasdaq -150.68 and the S&P -90.17. That makes for another 7%+ drop on each index. And as I write this, the Nikkei (Japan) is down almost 10%. European indexes are expected to follow [...]

The Sky is NOT Falling Sermon

Every Sunday I attend church and it’s just amazing that every week I hear a new sermon that it would seem is just made for me! This past Sunday, after last weeks decline on the DOW Pastor Robert Emmitt from  Community Bible Church here in San Antonio gave the following sermon. I’d like to share [...]

Rally

It has been yet another historical day in the financial markets… everywhere, the news boasts that:
Yesterday the Dow went up an unprecedented 11.08%, for a total of 936.42 points - the single largest increase in the Dow, ever.
Hold on a Second…
Does that send flags up to anyone other than me?
I know that the market has [...]

Black October

No, I am not talking about Halloween.
It’s a phrase that I’d like to use to refer to this month. In terms of financial history, a “Black” day refers to a significant drop in the stock market. Basically, it’s a bad day; traders and investors see massive losses… panic ensues… seem familiar?
Black October simply means that [...]

Haunted Houses

I got a funny, but sad email yesterday. It was a great little comic of a few kids going Trick-or-Treating. It depicts our current market environment and in somewhat of a faux-pas, shows how kids may be walking through a different kind of haunted neighborhood this year. This comic buzzed around my office before this [...]

What Is A Twenty Something To Do With This Financial Mess

The turmoil in the market and the current standings of the financial market have many people skeptical. Long time investors are starting to really wonder where their investments are going and when it[the declines] will stop. Investors who have a while until retirement have mixed emotions, after all no one likes to lose money but [...]