Posted in finance on May 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Another find from the Getting Rich Slowly blog. This is a fun interactive graph from the NYTimes that break downs how the Average American spends their money and what the % increase/decrease has been over the year. It’s pretty interesting stuff, I spent a good 5 minutes on it doing some comparisons with what we [...]
Posted in finance, mylife, travel on April 27th, 2007 No Comments »
The euro hit $1.3682 which is an all-time, in addition the British pound is up to around $2. Boy the wife and I sure picked a great time to go to Europe…we leave in 3 weeks. Hopefully we’ll have enough money to fly back, jeesh
Euro Rises to Record High Versus Dollar
Posted in finance, orlando on April 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Ran across this article posted on CNN.com yesterday and thought it would be worth passing along. In it the National Association of Realtors says it expect home prices to fall for the first time in the 40 years they have been tracking sales. They also expect median home prices to drop 8.7 percent by the [...]
Posted in consumer, finance on April 10th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m sure many of you have already heard or used this site, but considering the book review I just gave I figured I’d take a second to point it out. Investopedia.com is a great resource full of investment tutorials, articles, tools, and one of the best finance related dictionaries on the web. Many of the [...]
Posted in books, finance on July 2nd, 2006 No Comments »
Well I have finally finished The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman and it was absolutely a very interesting read. For those that don’t know this is a nonfiction book about how technology is flattening our world at a rapid pace and how individuals and countries can adapt to these changes and succeed in this [...]