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In an effort to encourage everyone (myself included) to learn more about the stock market I have setup a fantasy
investing game on Investopedia’s Investing Simulator and invited all my friends. So, why am I posting this? Well, if you’re reading my blog, then I consider you a friend (yes, I am that desperate for friends, […]

Over the last month I’ve been carefully evaluating the use of blogs by professionals. It’s my opinion that were a financial advisor with no knowledge of blogs be presented with the idea he or she would have no single place to go to learn about blogging. Granted, there are tons of sites that pitch blogging. […]

Nearly a year ago I did a post about Prosper where I proclaimed the greatness of the concept and was really excited about the company.
Today I received an email marking the one year anniversary of the company. After reading the email I must say that my fears did hold true. In my original post I […]

I know this is really coming out of left field, but have you ever noticed how many commercials have someone trying to steal the cereal from someone? I don’t watch much TV, but I sat down a couple days ago and watched an hour or so of some cartoons with my daughters. During this time […]

Today Wired posted an article letting folks know about the Virgin Earth Challenge. Over all I’d have to say that it’s a good thing, though I have some reservations about it. To quote the challenge website:
The Virgin Earth Challenge is a prize of $25m for whoever can demonstrate to the judges’ satisfaction a commercially viable […]