Archive for October, 2007

On Vacation, Back in November

I’m leaving for my vacation tonight. I will be back in November. Because I have no access to the Internet while I’m on vacation, this blog will not be updated again until I come back. I hope the flood of posts in the last two weeks made up for my absence.
I’m going to miss some exciting events while [...]

Carnival of Personal Finance #121

Carnival of Personal Finance #121 is up at Ask Mr Credit Card.  
The host wove the posts into a cool presidential election debate. My entry in this week’s carnival was Investments I Don’t Have. Here are a few articles I’d like to comment on.
Property tax problems for customers of bankrupt lender at Don’t Mess With Taxes. It never occurred to [...]

Subprime Correction Is Over, Really

It took a week after my pronouncement that the subprime induced stock market correction is over. Now it’s really over. The major indexes for both the U.S. and the international market, the Dow, S&P 500, MSCI EAFE, all went over their previous highs.
I’d like to enter these notes for myself as lessons learned from [...]

Book Review: Where Are The Customers’ Yachts

I heard about the book Where Are The Customers’ Yachts a long time ago but I’ve never read it. Perhaps the title did the job too well. It came from an old joke that goes like this:
An out-of-town guest was given a tour in New York. The guide pointed out the beautiful yachts in the harbor [...]