I was having some friends over for New Year’s Eve and some of them were saying how they and their friends who regularly go to the gym hate the new year because the gym is crowded the first couple weeks of the new year thanks to the ever popular resolution of exercising more. Then [...]
Finding more use out of my old iPod mini, I started listening to The Wall Street Journal This Morning podcasts on my drive to work.
Recently, they mentioned that the spending habits of men are related to their dating behavior based on findings from a research study from the University of Michigan. There’s also a [...]
Finding more use out of my old iPod mini, I started listening to The Wall Street Journal This Morning podcasts on my drive to work.
Recently, they mentioned that the spending habits of men are related to their dating behavior based on findings from a research study from the University of Michigan. There’s also a WSJ [...]
This past weekend, I chatted with two friends who took a financial economics class with me at Cal for one of our upper division electives. We spent a short amount of time reminiscing about our Econ days and studying together for Econ exams.
From that financial economics class (Econ 136), the two practical terms I [...]
The asynchronous nature of email has increased productivity by allowing people to send information and ask questions 24 hours, 7 days a week. Long ago, when you had a thought or question, you’d save it up with others until you had the next meeting or phone call with a person, but now you can [...]
The other day, my friends came over to watch the Big Game and I was telling one friend, who has been reading a whole lot of political books from the public library, that I had also just got a new library card and before we knew it, two of my friends were showing us their new library cards with imprinted art designed by local children. ... What I like about the library is that not only is it a great way to save money from books or items you may read/view/use only once, it's also environmentally friendly and you save space.
I was recently talking to a financial advisor at Charles Schwab with a relative and he showed us the emotional stages of an investor:
Image: Charles Schwab
He mentioned that currently, the majority of investors fall in between the panic stage (where small investors dump their holdings) and the capitulation stage (where large investors e.g. funds dump [...]
I’ve learned a lot about personal wealth, especially in the past 21 months. I decided to start this site to share what I’ve learned and about my experiences.
