From the category archives:
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Similarly, two poor investment decisions don’t add up to one good investment decision.
In the last few weeks, I’ve come across two articles discussing scenarios in which a homeowner was “underwater” on his/her mortgage. In each case, it was indicated that selling the home is a poor choice because the [...]
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While reading the comments on one of J.D.’s recent posts, I got the distinct impression that many of his readers (and likely mine as well) aren’t yet familiar with the concept of affiliate links or how to spot them.
That’s unfortunate. It means that many savers/investors are being exposed to a significant conflict of interests of [...]
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I’m in the process of making a tool that helps investors determine where to open a brokerage account that is likely to fit their own personal needs. Naturally, a part of that process is finding out what’s important to that particular investor.
So I’m curious: What factors would you consider when choosing a brokerage firm?
Here’s my [...]
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This is a guest post from Mr Credit Card of www.askmrcreditcard.com. If you are looking for a credit card, check out his best credit card offers page
Most people I know who do their own investing–as opposed to sticking with index funds or ETFs–use technical analysis or simply do some basic research, assume some growth rate, [...]
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This is a guest post from Michael, a contributing editor of Dough Roller, a personal finance and investing blog, and Credit Card Offers IQ, a credit card review site.
The debate between private and public education will most likely go on forever. Whether your child comes out of private or [...]
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For the last several months, the posting schedule on this blog has been:
Post each day Monday-Thursday
Roundup Friday
Starting this week, I’ll be trying something new: The total number of posts I write will be the same, but two of them will be offered to other blogs as guest posts. The end result will be this schedule:
Post [...]
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Starting today, I’m going to be giving out free copies of my book: Investing Made Simple. (Not just pdf versions. Actual books. Delivered to you from Amazon.)
But first, let me back up a step.
Sometimes I suspect that I’m preaching to the choir here with this blog. Many of you are already implementing low-cost, diversified investment [...]
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“A respect for evidence compels me to incline toward the hypothesis that most portfolio decision makers should go out of business.” – Paul Samuelson
Paul Samuelson, 1970 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, died today.
Samuelson had a tremendous influence in the field of economics. (And judging from Amazon sales ranks, his book Economics [...]
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I tend to think mostly in terms of mathematical relationships. That’s why I spend so much time writing about things like expense ratios, the costs of index funds as compared to ETFs, ways to save on taxes, and so on.
Of course, investing–and the broader topic of personal finance–isn’t just about math. It’s about emotions like [...]
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Today (10/26/09) is The Oblivious Investor’s first birthday.
A few statistics of interest:
285 posts,
~ 600 subscribers,
1,359 comments,
Currently getting ~ 230 first-time visitors each day via search engines, and
2 new books launched.
On growth and goals:
I’m happy with that level of growth. I can’t say whether or not it exceeded my expectations, because I didn’t have [...]
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It looks like the FTC is going to start requiring bloggers to disclose paid endorsements. I’m not sure if or how it will apply to affiliate links, but it will be interesting to see what happens.
For those who are not experienced in the ways of blogging/online entrepreneurship: An affiliate link is simply a link to [...]
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