Earlier today I was reading Andrew Feinberg's article in May's Kiplinger's Personal Finance. He was mentioning the problems he has with John Bogle's index investing advice. Near the end of the article, Feinberg relays a story by John Bogle Jr. (a great mutual fund manager by the way) about how they kept it cold inside the house. Cold [...]
Archive for April, 2006
Don’t Touch that Thermostat!
Posted in General on April 18, 2006 | 6 Comments »
Financial Updates
Posted in General on April 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Some recent financial moves:
As of the end of March, we have put in $2000 to each of our respective Roths for 2006. Halfway home.
Zions Bank who houses our home downpayment fund and emergency fund recently upped it’s rates to 4.5% APY to better compete with the nationwide leaders.
We are pre-qualified for a home purchase in [...]
Maxwell AFB 2006 Air Show
Posted in General on April 13, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I thought I would share a few pictures from last weekend's Air Show. It was the first time the F-22 Raptor was on public display. Incredible aircraft. Every other fighter is called an "air superiority" fighter. The Raptor is called an "air domination" fighter. It rules the airspace despite being greatly outnumbered. It also carries all [...]
CNBC Squawk Box Fantasy Challenge (Even More Technical Difficulties)
Posted in General on April 7, 2006 | 1 Comment »
In my opinion, this game continues to be poorly designed and administered. Pardon me if I seem a little too grumpy on a Friday. I already mentioned my first day delays logging in and the strange end of day trading mechanisms. Yesterday, I posted a couple of trades well before the daily deadline. This morning, [...]
CNBC Squawk Box Challenge (Technical Difficulties)
Posted in Stocks on April 4, 2006 | 11 Comments »
I guess the fine people over at CNBC underestimated the interest their challenge would generate. Their servers must have been crashing, as I was unable to make my initial buys for over two hours this morning. Did other folks have technical difficulties? Also, what did everyone think about the game once they were able to [...]
