PARA BLOG

With gas prices where they are, the Civic is most likely seeing an increase in demand. Here's some spy shots of the newest Civic. Cal...

Carnival of Personal Finance - Week 3 Update

I have had a few submissions so far for the upcoming Carnival of Personal Finance - Week 3. I NEED MORE! If you want to be included please s...

Personal Finance Quote of the Day

"In a bubble, hype becomes truth, and hard facts that don't fit the new paradigm are discarded as 'irrelevant.'" - Jer...

How to Calculate Annualized Rate of Return

I set up the Prudent Portfolio with $100,000 nearly three weeks ago. As of this morning it had an account balance of $102,127, for a total ...

More on Cnooc

Like I said in earilier posts ( here and here ), this is big news. Here's another article (I don't know how long this link will b...

The Best of AllThingsFinancial

I was reading through all the posts I have done since I started this blog on October 13, 2004. There's some pretty good stuff - at least...

Pension Problems and What to do About Them

There's a really sad story ($) in today's Wall Street Journal about how companies reduce or eliminate pensions for their current and...

Problems with Blogger

Okay, now this I can't figure out. All the sudden several of my posts are not showing up. I can still see them in my posts list, but I...

Twelve Key Elements of Practical Personal Finance

There's a neat little book by James Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, and Dwight R. Lee called Common Sense Economics . I have referred to ...

Getting America to Save

How can we get Americans to save? I pose this question because the root of a lot of our problems is the fact that we, as Americans, are not ...

The Real Estate Bubble

The other day I posted about how foreign investors buying up our 10-year treasury notes is causing mortgage rates to stay low. We all know...

Man on a Mission Latest Update

If you are a new reader of AllThingsFinancial, you may not be aware that I have another blog called Man on a Mission that is dedicated to co...

Should Planners Mix Religion and Money?

Have you heard of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ? As you can tell from their name, they are a financial services company for Lutherans. T...

Great Resources for Kids

Haziran 27, 2005 Add Comment Edit

A lot of my readers are parents. So, I thought it would be cool to come up with a reference list of what I think are some pretty good finan...

Carnival of Personal Finance #2 is Out!

Today's Carnival is being hosted by Jim at Blueprint . There's some good stuff there. Go check it out! Carnival #3 will be hosted b...

Prudent Portfolio Weekly Update

Haziran 25, 2005 Add Comment Edit

I updated the PrudentPortolio this afternoon. The portfolio gave back most of the gains from last week. However, the portfolio is still u...

Are You Rich?

This is a good post on what it means to be "rich."

Excellent Article on Roth IRAs for Kids

John Waggoner of the USA Today has a really good article on Roth IRAs for kids who have summer jobs. The real beauty of a kid starting a Ro...

Is Foreign Investment Responsible for the Housing Bubble?

This editorial (free) in yesterday's Wall Street Journal seems to think so. What he says makes a lot of sense. The premise of his arg...

Lots of Talk About China

Today's Wall Street Journal has several articles regarding Cnooc's bid for Unocal . The WSJ's editorial page is pretty much back...

Steve Pavlina's Blog

I found Steve Pavlina's Blog via the To-Done Blog . It is a pretty cool blog that fits nicely with the AllThingsFinancial theme that w...

Attention Personal Finance Bloggers: Send me Your Mission Statements

As many of you know, I have a blog dedicated to mission statements called Man on a Mission . I have mostly concentrated on company mission ...

Rechargeable Batteries - An Update

Yesterday I posted about whether or not rechargeable batteries are a good investment. I did a cost comparison between Energizer's AA re...

Cnooc Bids for Unocal

Cnooc - pronounced "see-nook" - has made an all-cash bid of $67 per share (plus a $500 million breakup fee to Chevron and the ass...

A Note to my Readers

If your RSS Reader shows that AllThingsFinancial has a lot of new posts, it's because I am working out the bugs in my format. I want to...

Prudent Portfolio Midweek Update

For those who are interested, I did a midweek update of the PrudentPortfolio. The portfolio has given back some of the gains from last wee...

Are Rechargeable Batteries a Good Investment?

With two boys - ages 9 and 8 - and all their toys, we go through a ton of batteries. So, I finally broke down and bought an Energizer Unive...

The Importance of Understanding Your Objectives When Investing

Yesterday, when I wrote the post about life insurance, I referred to a book by G. Victor Hallman and Jerry S. Rosenbloom called Personal Fi...

Shiller's Data

This is for all you data freaks. I found something that is pretty cool. For those of you with Excel, there's a spreadsheet containing d...

Life Insurance

Haziran 21, 2005 Add Comment Edit

Yesterday's post on how to calculate how much life insurance is needed received some great comments. For those who don't typically ...

A Question for All You Bloggers Out There

Should I offer my full feed or partial feed? I switched to partial feed a couple of weeks ago because I was tired of finding my full conten...

How Much Life Insurance do You Need?

Haziran 21, 2005 Add Comment Edit

This is a long post. I couldn't think of a good way to break it up. You see commercials all the time about how you can get $100,000 of ...

Finding Time to Manage Your Finances

Haziran 21, 2005 Add Comment Edit

Terri Cullen, author of the Fiscally Fit column of the Wall Street Journal, has written a useful article (free) with helpful tips on findin...

Paying for College Via Income Shifting

Steven Podnos has written an interesting article in the June issue of Investment Advisor magazine about how parents can use income shifting...

Way OT: Fun With Telemarketers

Okay, you're going to see the mean side of me. I'm willing to bet that upwards of 75% of the calls we get daily are telemarketers. ...

OT: One Word for the New Mercedes S Class

U-G-L-Y Mercedes S Class Tag: Mercedes S Class

What's Google Worth?

This week's Barrons has a really good article ($) on valuing Google (GOOG). Although the article doesn't come right out and explici...

Prudent Portfolio Objective

I just posted the objective of the Prudent Portfolio and other important information regarding the porfolio. For those who are following t...

You Need a Budget (YNAB) for Excel - Quick Review

I first heard about You Need a Budget in a review I read on the Frugal for Life blog. I thought I'd do my own quick review. I hope to...

Father's Day

I hope all you fathers out there had a nice Father's Day. I had a really nice day. I spent the day with my family. We went out to lun...

The Carnival of Personal Finance is Out!

Haziran 18, 2005 Add Comment Edit

You can check it out at ConsumerismCommentary . This is the personal finance blogger's answer to all the other carnivals going around!

Subscribe to the Prudent Portfolio

I added Feedburner to PrudentPortfolio for those who are interested. The feed URL is: http://prudentportfolio.blogspot.com/atom.xml

The Prudent Portfolio is Updated for the Week

Haziran 17, 2005 Add Comment Edit

The Prudent Portfolio got off to a great start this week. You can read about it on the PrudentPortfolio blog. I hope to add in some extra...

The True Cost of an Interest-Only Mortgage

Haziran 17, 2005 Add Comment Edit

Yesterday I compared 15, 30 and 40-year mortgages . Today I wanted to look at some numbers regarding interest-only (I/O)mortgages. Yesterday...

Your Financial Planner May be Biased Too

Haziran 17, 2005 Add Comment Edit

Karen Damato of the Wall Street Journal has written an article (free) that everyone should read that goes along with what I have been sayin...

Another Blog to Check Out

Steve Mertz has a blog called In Cash Flow We Trust that is worth checking out. I would categorize his blog as inspirational and financial...

Prudent Portfolio Update - Thursday's Close

I just finished updating the Prudent Portfolio to reflect today's closing prices. I have to admit, it's a lot easier to update it ...

Comparing 15, 30, and 40 Year Mortgages

They aren't new. They have been around since the 80s but died out until now. I'm talking about 40-year mortgages. With the price ...

Prudent Portfolio - Day 3