Category Archives: Personal Finance

Turning debt into… non-debt

Posted on April 14, 2007 by Derek

I keep hearing these commercials on WBEN for John Cummuta’s Transforming Debt Into Wealth System, and as someone who takes a great deal of interest in personal finance, I wanted to learn more. I tend to be a skeptic, so … Continue reading →

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First stock trade of the year

Posted on January 8, 2007 by Derek

Last year was the first year that I really started paying attention to the stock market. While I’ve had a portfolio for several years, I was unsuccessfully following the old “Buy and Hold” mantra. I decided that 2006 was going … Continue reading →

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Hope for their financial future

Posted on January 4, 2007 by Derek

Good news from the pages of USA Today… fourteen states now require high school grads to have some basic personal finance training. States are recognizing that financial literacy is an important “skill for the 21st century,” says Joseph Peri of … Continue reading →

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Budgeting and living within your means

Posted on December 30, 2006 by Derek

I just completed my annual review of our 2006 spending and setting up our budget for 2007. Starting back in 2000, after I graduated from college and got a “real job”, I set up a simple spreadsheet that let me … Continue reading →

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Booyah Spitzer!

Posted on November 10, 2006 by Derek

I rail on Governor-elect Spitzer a lot for only doing half his job as Attorney General. But even I have to give him props for cleaning up some of the bad stuff that went on in Wall Street. The New … Continue reading →

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Fiber is good for you

Posted on September 27, 2006 by Derek

I’ve been patiently waiting to get FiOS, Verizon’s new fiber optic residential network, since February. It’s really bugging me because I know they ran fiber to a box on the corner of my lot last year, but they’re still not … Continue reading →

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Gas is falling… because of Republicans?

Posted on September 13, 2006 by Derek

Anyone that drives a vehicle has seen the sudden drop in gas prices. And anyone that follows financial markets knows this is because of how fickle the global oil market is. It goes up when anything threatens the supply of … Continue reading →

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Cardavenue: Gift Card Exchange

Posted on September 9, 2006 by Derek

I ran across Cardavenue while reading an article in Money magazine and loved the idea – a website where you can go and post gift cards that you have acquired that you don’t want or need, and try to trade … Continue reading →

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The Google Knows All

Posted on August 19, 2006 by Derek

I got a good chuckle reading All Things Jennifer’s article about one of her posts showing up on Google Finance, even though it didn’t have much to do with finance. But then that got me thinking… I actually did write … Continue reading →

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Market madness

Posted on August 15, 2006 by Derek

I haven’t done much financial blogging lately, but today I have a good reason to. The stock market rallied a bit today, and everything in my portfolio was up… except for Valero (VLO) and Nighthawk Radiology (NHWK). Valero I can … Continue reading →

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