Archive for March, 2009

The Carnival of Financial Planning Is Now Live

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

For those who are interested, and even those who aren’t, the Carnival of Financial Planning for March 21, 2009 is now up and live on the Skilled Investor’s blog.  I have to say thank you once again for including my post Read This Before You Trade Any More Stocks in the carnival! infant motrin
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How Can Consumer Confidence Surveys Be Taken As Seriously As They Are?

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

For some reason, the idea popped into my head to look into how the consumer sentiment is figured. You know, those surveys done by the University of Michigan and The Conference Board which tell us what consumers feel about their situations and the economy, and which ultimately turns the markets one way or the other [...]

Read This Before You Trade Any More Stocks

Friday, March 13th, 2009

The other day I wrote a post called Do People Even Have A Clue When It Comes To Investing? in which I commented about an article I read on MSN Money Central.  The article, and my post dealt with the fact that people are panicking and taking every piece of news at face value rather than [...]

I Cut Cable Out Of My life Today!

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

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Earlier today I decided that I had had enough of the added expense of paying for cable television.  This was far from a frugality choice or a consequence of the downturn in the economy.  I really do not use it on an everyday basis, and there are even some evenings during which the [...]

Today Is The Perfect Day To Start Learning From Past Mistakes

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

People often say that you cannot look to the past to predict future events.  I would beg to differ greatly from that viewpoint.  While the circumstances that surround past events may not be duplicated exactly in order to predict the future, as in the stock market, it is very easy to take past behavior and [...]


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