Archive for the ‘Rant’ Category
Friday, May 30th, 2008
This post is a bit off topic, but I just have to say that I'm tired of listening to advice from strangers. O.k, perhaps not total strangers, but people who don't really know me very well. When I speak to my coworkers and ask about their kids they reciprocate by ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
I think it’s interesting that the mutual fund industry is one of the few industries that doesn’t adjust it’s cost structure for economies of scale.
In manufacturing, the more of something you produce the less expensive it becomes. It’s called leverage, and because of machines, purchasing power, and technological advancement large ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
It doesn't take me much to get all raged up on a topic of minimal importance, so I'd like to take this opportunity to mention one of my many quirks:
I use "M" to represent thousands of dollars in my posts, as any "finance professional" would (I use this term very, ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
There are some things that drive me crazy (o.k., a lot of things really), and one of them is making a mistake that could have easily been avoided.
Just the other day I finished our taxes for 2007, and boy did I find a stupid mistake. Not in my tax preparations, ...
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