This is the fourth installment in my TIPS auction series. The previous posts in this series were: TIPS Auction Step By Step: Know the Schedule TIPS Auction Step By Step: Read the Announcement TIPS Auction Step By Step: Place the Order After the auction is over, the Treasury Department publishes the official auction results on […]
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TIPS Auction Step By Step: Place the Order
This is part three of the TIPS auctions series. Other posts in this series are: TIPS Auction Step By Step: Know the Schedule TIPS Auction Step By Step: Read the Announcement TIPS Auction Step By Step: Read the Results If you are interested in TIPS but you don’t want to be bothered with auctions, you […]
TIPS Auction Step By Step: Read the Announcement
This is part two of the TIPS auctions series. The other posts in the series are: TIPS Auction Step By Step: Know the Schedule TIPS Auction Step By Step: Place the Order TIPS Auction Step By Step: Read the Results If you are interested in TIPS but you don’t want to be bothered with auctions, […]
My 401k Hidden Fees Experiment
Back in March, I wrote Uncover The Hidden Fees In Your 401(k) Plan. Because the hidden fees are so hard to pin down, I gave a method which helps find out if there are hidden fees in the plan and if so how much the hidden fees are. Find in your plan’s menu one fund […]
TIPS Auction Step By Step: Know the Schedule
This is the first post in a series on buying new-issue TIPS in an auction. Other posts in the series include: TIPS Auction Step By Step: Read the Announcement TIPS Auction Step By Step: Place Order TIPS Auction Step By Step: Read the Results Tentative Auction Schedule How do you know when they will hold […]
Who’s MERS and What Do They Have To Do With Me?
I received a notice yesterday from my county recorder’s office. It has something to do with my recent mortgage refinance. Here’s what it says: "KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that certain Deed of Trust described below provides that the holder of the Note secured by said Deed of Trust may appoint a successor Trustee […]
Farmers Market and Brown Eggs
I don’t know why I missed out for so long. I visited the farmers market in my town for the first time last weekend. What a pleasant experience! There are a lot of vendors selling produce. The fruits and vegetables don’t look as neat as those in the grocery stores but they taste a lot […]
How Do You Find Good Home Improvement Contractors?
This is a question for my readers who are also homeowners. Help me out here. How do you find good contractors for home improvements and repairs? I know the standard answer is "ask your friends and neighbors." But how do they know if someone is good? I’ve used a few different people for different things […]
Imported Spreadsheets to Zoho
I mentioned in another post that I started using Zoho recently. Zoho offers a suite of "office" software online. They have online word processor, spreadsheet, presentation and many other types of software that traditionally resides on a local computer. Having these software online lets me access my documents from anywhere. It also lets me share […]
A Tale of Two Charts
The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices came out for February 2008. They showed a year-over-year decline for most cities. The announcement from Standard & Poor’s came with the following chart: The plunge is quite impressive, isn’t it? Now look at this second chart. What do you see? A long rise followed by a small drop. The […]