Posts Tagged “investing”
Location, location, location. On the Internet, a good domain name is the online equivalent of that corner lot in the neighborhood with good schools. The problem is, all the good names are taken and only “fixer-uppers” are left. That’s why you have companies called Flickr, Rowdii, Weebly, and Sedo — which auctions off domain names [...]
And all I have to do to claim my winnings is send my bank account information to some guy in Nigeria with a hotmail email address. Here is the super-official text of my winning notification: From: House Of The Senate House Subject: Attn This is to officially inform you that 6.8 Million Dollars has been [...]
The “crowds” (Amazon reviewers) liked James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds, so I checked it out and read it poolside in Cabo. I wasn’t a huge fan. While the book had a few interesting tidbits, it was mostly filled with less-than-insightful passages explaining why our collective intelligence can actually be pretty smart. For example, it [...]
I picked up David Bach’s Smart Couples Finish Rich from the library and finished it over the weekend. I can’t remember who had recommended it, but I didn’t feel it was the best financial book for a couple in their mid-twenties. Too much time was spent on wills and trusts, life insurance, long term care [...]
