As someone who is early in their investing career, I’m someone who probably plays it a little too safe when it comes to what I’m investing in. I have a few hundred dollars in bonds, $500 in a rotating CD, and a nice chunk of change in a Money Market account. I haven’t started playing the stock market yet, but one day soon I...
read more
I can be a bit goofy sometimes; I have to be, I work with teenagers. One day, I was doing the dishes and for some reason, I didn’t squeeze the soap bottle hard enough, and little tiny bubbles popped out. I was either tired or incredibly bored, and I just started to laugh. Mind you, I’m in my mid 20’s, so I had to have looked...
read more
I’m a big Apple fan, for many reasons. iPods, even though I don’t own one, intrigue and entertain me. I steal… I mean, I borrow the ones my students have and check out all the apps and stuff. One of my students has an iPad, and even though I’ve been known to make fun of them, I find the silly thing fascinating. Macs are...
read more
Around the world, nervous eyes are watching the stock market, waiting to see what happens. Investors, politicians, stock market professionals, everyone is watching carefully as futures dip up and down drastically every single day. I bet that there are some of you sitting there saying “So what? I have nothing invested in the stock...
read more
Reitrement. I haven’t thought about it enough, probably because, being a middle-class American, I don’t plan on retiring until much later on in life. I know people who passed away while still working. It’s just not on my radar, even though I tell you, my readers, that you should be. Anyway, if you’re saving for retirement...
read more
So, the stock market’s a mess. Between negative estimated futures, economic debates in Congress that may result in a “debt ceiling” for our country’s debt, bailouts in Greece, oil rising because of decreased demand, and a myriad of other things, the stock market has been a literal roller coaster. Companies in bankruptcy are...
read more
