Archive for December, 2006

Book Review: Origins of the Crash

Today I’m reviewing the book Origins of the Crash by Roger Lowenstein. It’s on my Recommended Reading List. See my other book reviews on this list.
This book is about the 2000-2002 stock market crash. If you weren’t an investor then, it’s a good read to understand what the crash was about. If you lost a [...]

Carnival of Personal Finance #79

Carnival of Personal Finance #79 is up at A Penny Saved. My entry was comments on the best ways to invest a small amount (less than a few thousand dollars). These are my favorite posts in the carnival:

How to Do Great Work - Hamming’s Take at Watch Your Wallet. While it’s important to spend less, [...]

Best Brokerage Firm for Bonds

[Last updated on April 3, 2008.]
This is a part of the TFB Awards for Best In Class in Financial Services series.
Fidelity Investments wins the TFB Award for Best Brokerage Firm for Bonds .
Although the TFB Award for Best Mutual Fund Company went to The Vanguard Group , I don’t like Vanguard’s brokerage service as much. [...]

I’m Invited to Celebrity Conference But I Will Not Attend

I received in the mail two VIP tickets, said to be worth $69 each, to “the nation’s #1 conference on Real Estate Investing & Total Asset Protection.” The expert speakers in this conference include Robert Bluhm and Wayne Gray, neither of whom I’ve heard of. So who are Robert Bluhm and Wayne Gray? I used [...]