A lot of you probably heard about the market downturn last week. In just over two days, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped over 1300 points or about 4.5%. The other major stock market indices didn’t do much better. Both the Nasdaq, S&P 500, Russell 2000 Index and others all got walloped last week. It …
Before I begin let me state that everything I say here is purely speculation. I have no inside information. I just read a lot and have my own thoughts and opinions on the subject. If you have been paying attention to the stock market you will have noticed that we have had a pretty extensive …
Happy New Year to everyone. My apologies for not posting last week (at least someone checked in on me thank you Paul) but my laptop was on the fritz, I had a couple of advising sessions before school, and I decided to take the week to relax before the semester starts within a week or …
I have always been interested in personal finance and money. I remember I wrote a really crappy essay in high school called “Money Rules the World.” I would actually read about the stock price of my dad’s company in our local newspaper. Before I started college one of the professions I investigated was becoming a …
This post is meant to generate discussion regarding the right investment provider with the right investment products for your personal financial situation. Choosing your investment provider is one of the most important decisions people make as they move to financial independence. I mentioned in an earlier post that I am not going to be “buying …
If anyone stumbles upon this blog I hope that one of the lessons they will take away from it is the importance of investing. In fact, most personal finance blogs will probably have some kind of post(s) dedicated to investing. Those topics include how much you should save (see also here), what I consider to the be the number …
I am sure that all of us have said, at one time or another, that we can’t do anything because we are “broke.” For most of us this is nothing but a colloquial phrase we use when we don’t have money to do something or we need to curtail our spending. However, there are other …
Over the past few years I have moved about one half of my pedagogy online. Unlike an in-class experience where I feel like I know what I am doing I am constantly doubting myself about my online teaching. I think I do a pretty good job in-class, but translating that into a good experience for …
In the title of this post some of you may not know what FIRE stands for. FIRE stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early. Well in the personal finance blogosphere one of the big things is determining when you can achieve financial independence (e.g. what date, what amount you need, etc). Since I began writing this …
In my last post I had mentioned that I had the privilege of being part of a wonderful panel of colleagues where we were giving advice on a variety of subjects concerning the job market. I can only hope the advice that was presented at that panel will somehow be memorialized in a larger document …