No. It’s amazing how this simple two-letter word has spawned so many articles, studies and blog posts. How do you feel when you hear or read those two letters? Should we say NO more often, or less often – to our kids, to our boss, to our customers, to the never-ending stream of information available…
Welcome to the 65th edition of the Totally Money Blog Carnival! It’s been a month since Jim Yih and I joined Balance Junkie to help share the workload with Kim Petch and so far I think it’s gone pretty well. Kim is still contributing her insightful posts (and hopefully finding that extra time to work…
If I were one of these crazy hedge fund guys, with the slick haircuts and fancy shoes and racing stripe shirts, the trade I’d put on is 10-times-leveraged natural gas long versus 10-times short Apple. ~ Jeffrey Gundlach, April 26, 2012 The quote above is from the latest presentation given by DoubleLine’s Jeffrey Gundlach. For…
Markets have been subject to some April showers this year. Will they lead to May flowers? We’ll find out soon. In the meantime, check out some of the great articles I noticed across the web during the past month. 1. Creativity is often underestimated as a driver of economic growth. Flip Chart Fairy Tales asks Is…
Our attention is one of our most important assets. What we focus or attention on becomes our reality. The projects we focus on are the projects that get completed. ~ Leo Babauta, The Power of Less Multitasking seems to be all the rage these days in spite of the evidence that it doesn’t really help…
What do most people do with their tax refunds? They spend it of course! It’s bonus money, fun money, But in tighter economic times when all you hear is about high debt levels, low savings rates, a growing retirement gap and fear of inflation, could this be the year to do something fiscally responsible with…
There was a poll taken the other day showing that Colorado voters prefer having Eli Manning as the quarterback of the Denver Broncos over Tim Tebow. The poll states: “Democrats prefer Manning by 46 points, 60/14, while Republicans do by just a 7 point spread at 44/37. Every group of the electorate prefers Manning over…
As much as we love our long weekends, the longstanding complaint is gas prices will go up and the weather will be lousy. True to Murphy’s law, gas prices jumped up prior to the Easter long weekend. We were on holidays driving south to Salt Lake City where prices in the US also jumped. As…
