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Posts from ‘October, 2007’

Investment Wednesday! Wait…

Yes I know, Tuesday is typically my investment stuffs day, but I like to mix things up a bit. As such you are stuck with my ramblings on investment TODAY. Anyway let’s get started. I’ve been playing around with different short-term trading strategies for fun over at Wall Street Survivor. This is really just to […]

Seems I’ve Been Tagged

Who knew? I know some bloggers shy away from these silly things, but I for one think they are a fun change of pace to the day to day finance stuffs. So with that in mind, Brip Blap hit me with the following question: What one goal have you always had privately that you would […]

Money Project 2, Phase 2: Freelance Writing

It”s Monday again already…where did the weekend go!? As we know from phase 1, I brought on 2 sources of income for my freelance writing project. My first was Helium. I went into Helium not expecting to earn anything at all. After all, the revenue split seems pretty well skewed in Helium”s favor, and I […]

Winding Down Friday: CDs or Not?

I’ve always found Bank CDs (Certificate of Deposit) to be an interesting instrument. While they do command a higher interest rate than their more liquid counterparts, they also lock up your money for a length of time. So it is that I’ve always wondered where in the risk/use spectrum are CDs employed? For me, being […]

The Need for Growth

I suppose it’s working in the Financial Services industry, where growth is the be all end all of things when it comes to investing, that makes me feel like things always need to be…well, growing! After all, if you are going to invest in a company like the one I work for, SEI, they are […]