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Bag lunch = Make Money

I have brought my lunch to work for nine straight working days and I’m actually started to get used to it now.  Here’s the caveat…I travel approximately 30% for business, so when I travel, I eat out.  But, in that case, the lunch is paid-for by a client or my firm and the only downside [...]

Why People Hate Tom Brady

Why People Hate Tom Brady

Let me start this out by stating the fact that I am a Buffalo Bills fan….sad, I know.  Let me also state that I really like Tom Brady.  I can already hear the rumblings from you….OH MY GOD, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS GUY, HE IS A BUFFALO BILLS FAN WHO LIKES TOM [...]

Tim Ferriss is a Fraud

No one can make it in life working only four hours per week.  No one can have the perfect body exercising only four hours per week.  Not so, says Tim Ferriss! Ok, so the only  fraud here may be me, since I am actually a Tim Ferriss fan, but I figured the title to this [...]

New Year’s Resolutions

2011 is upon us and now is the time to make and act upon New Year’s Resolutions. I have various family and work oriented resolutions, but I’ll just focus on my financial and personal health goals of 2011 in this short article. 1. Max-out 401(k) contributions.  The 2011 401(k) contribution max is set at $16,500, [...]

Time Flies

Well where do I start.  My family moved from North Carolina to Hoboken, NJ for a job opportunity of mine.  I started the new job at the beginning of August and we made the full move on October 1st.  We still own our home in NC, but are renting it out as a corporate relocation [...]

Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July!

One of my favorite pics from July 4, 2010. Photo by:  Jason Decrow/Associated Press

SPY, FAZ and more

SPY, FAZ and more

The major market averages had a difficult time today, starting out positive but then selling off for the remainder of the day, all ending lower. Dow 10,510.95 -114.88 -1.08% Nasdaq 2,317.26 -36.97 -1.57% S&P 500 1,120.80 -16.14 -1.42% As referenced by the SPY ETF chart below, we are still under the ATR buy signal and [...]

21 ways to go green on a budget

Vanguard has a nice article within it’s Planning and Education section of its website that presents “21 ways to go green on a budget.”  Keeping with my prior “green” theme, I figured this would be an interesting and relevant bit of information to share with our readers. Most people think that “going green” has to [...]