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Premarket Friday

Premarket stock futures are trying to figure out which way to go today, but are currently higher (but barely).  Mixed news signals including the UK government backing BP, pledging to help with the Gulf oil spill.  Additionally, Chinese inflation rose to a 19-month high, and Spain is in question whether or not it requested aid [...]

Would you invest in yourself?

In conjunction with the recent investment talk at this website recently, I wanted to ask our readers a question related to the tag line of this website, “Run Your Life like a Business.”  Would you invest in yourself if you were a business?  Have you ever contemplated such a thought process?  What exactly would you [...]

Linking Tuesday

U.S. stocks ended firmly higher Tuesday, even as the technology sector stayed lower, rebounding from two days of heavy losses helped by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s assessment that another recession is unlikely.
Here are some links for your reading pleasure from today, Tuesday June 8, 2010:
Teens face worst summer job market in years
Reduce Stock Holdings [...]

Mint.com Summary and Review

Mint.com is by far one of the flashiest, sleekest, most-web-2.0-ish personal finance applications to hit the market in quite some time. Will it revolutionize your personal finances? Read on and see for yourself. (Review provided by http://personalfinancesoftwarereviews.com/mint/)
We have used Mint.com for some time now.  It is the most user-friendly, basic, free online personal finance software [...]

Berkshire Hathaway Meeting

Mr. Buffett’s annual meeting occured on May 1, 2010.  The Visitor’s Guide to this great event can be found here.  I’m about a month late in writing this very brief blog post, but I wanted to make sure I published it anyways, better late than never.  I occasionally receive emails from Keys to the Vault [...]