Can I Get Rich On A Salary participated in three personal-finance blog carnivals this past week.
[Editor’s Note: In case you are not familiar with blog carnivals, a blog carnival is a multi-blog event in which a number of bloggers aggregate their articles within a certain theme or subject area into one post. The “host” of the carnival writes up the post on his or her blog and includes links to the various articles. Hopefully, this helps readers as they get a “one stop shop” of articles. I post a weekly recap of the blog carnivals in which I have participated—and try also to cull out a few articles that I’d like to share with you here.]
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Four Blog Carnivals of the Apocalypse!From: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-05-29 05:49:00
Four is the only number for which the number of letters in its name is the same as the number itself. It is: the number of Horsemen of the Apocalypse; the number of chambers in the heart; the number of basic states of matter in chemistry (solid, liquid, gas, and plasma); the number of strings on a violin; the “universal number for women” (I’m not sure what that means); and the number of blocks in every shape in Tetris . And Can I Get Rich On A Salary participated in fo...
more What To Do With Wildly Inconsistent Stock Advice, Using China as an ExampleFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-05-28 05:25:00
Last week, I mentioned learning more about Random Walk Down Wall Street author and Professor Burton Malkiel ’s view that most U.S. investors are “underweight” in China—and generally that he expects the China stock market to outperform the U.S. stock market by a couple of percentage points or more. A. Gary Shilling of ...
more There Are Only Two Ways To Save More MoneyFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-05-27 05:05:00
I like breaking things down into two or three. Those are numbers I can count to. Numbers my little pea brain can keep track of. Research suggests the human brain can comfortably track about three things at once—with four things being “difficult” and five things being “nearly impossible.” (See How much can your mind keep track of? (at EurekAlert!) .) Who needs to be strained? Let’s stick with two or three things at once. ...
more Generous Return Policies and “Risk Free” Trials Can Fool Your FrugalityFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-05-26 06:10:00
Do you sometimes justify buying something because the return policy liberally allows you to return it? If so, when was the last time you actually returned it? If you’re like me, this happens a bit too often. I might find something I’ ve been looking for in a store at a reasonably good price—or more often, a slightly-higher-than-I-wanted-to-pay price that still feels like it’s within the realm of “reasonable,” especially since it’s a slightly nicer model or has a few additional f...
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