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06/16
Rose-coloured crystal balls
non member blog: Enough Wealth created 1 month, 1 week ago
It wasn't much fun reading the recent stock market doom-and-gloom commentary in the mainstream media, given my fairly high asset allocation to stocks, and my use of gearing. It's far more enjoyable to read optimistic (from my point of view) predictio
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06/16
Corporate and Government Bond Yields
curiouscat - member blog: Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog created 1 month, 1 week ago
Over the last 2 months the yields on bonds have increased the discount rate has continued to decline. The spread between corporate bond yields and government bonds has decreased a bit as treasury yields have increased 37 basis points compared to ju
tags: asia bonds books capitalism chart china commentary cool credit cards credit crisis credit score curiouscat customer service data debt economics economy entrepreneur externalities fed (+ 25 more) [edit]
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06/15
Save Money on Food
curiouscat - member blog: Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog created 1 month, 1 week ago
With the drastic increases in food prices recently a home garden an attractive way to save some money. I have planted a garden for several years. Frankly the main reasons I did so had nothing to do with money. I find it cool to plant a seed or sma
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06/14
Foreclosure Filings Continue to Rise
curiouscat - member blog: Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog created 1 month, 1 week ago
Foreclosure Filings Continue to Rise Foreclosure filings last month were up nearly 50 percent compared with a year earlier, according to one company’s count released yesterday. Nationwide, 261,255 homeowners received at least one foreclosure-re
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06/14
Spend, spend, spend
non member blog: Enough Wealth created 1 month, 1 week ago
Today I ended up spending a bit more than I planned. This afternoon we drove down to the music shop where we'd bought DS1's clarinet (second hand) a couple of years ago. He started learning the clarinet this year, and playing in the school's training
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06/14
Debt Consolidation
non member blog: Enough Wealth created 1 month, 1 week ago
Many people have problems with debt - they start are using credit cards for convenience, and don't immediately appreciate that anything you charge has to be paid back! Of course, they know it in an abstract sense, but they are happy to not think abou
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06/12
Forest Glen Preserve Photos
curiouscat - member blog: Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog created 1 month, 1 week ago
Photos from my hike in Forest Glen Preserve, Illinois 2 years ago. Other photos: Bull Run Mountain Conservancy Trail, Virginia - Yellowstone National Park - Devils Tower National Monument
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06/12
Money for nothing, and FX for free
non member blog: Enough Wealth created 1 month, 2 weeks ago
DW and I attended a free CFD trading seminar provided by CityIndex this evening. It was held at the Sofitel Wentworth hotel this evening, and attendees received a bonus $250 match if they opened an account and fund it within a week of the seminar. Th
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06/10
Monopolies and Oligopolies do not a Free Market Make
curiouscat - member blog: Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog created 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Pretty much everyone (certainly the vast majority of regulators and politicians) have no clue about capitalism. The concept that a “free market” should be allowed to operate is theoretical, based on “perfect competition” (whic
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06/09
30 Year Conventional Fixed Mortgage Rates Increase
curiouscat - member blog: Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog created 1 month, 2 weeks ago
This year, the average discount rate has fallen every month while the average 30 year mortgage rate has climbed all but 1 month (a 5 basis point drop). In January, 2008 the discount rate averaged 3.94% and 30 year conventional fixed rate mortgages a
tags: economics financial literacy personal finance [edit]
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06/08
New Graduates Should Live Frugally
curiouscat - member blog: Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog created 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Graduates should put off living large after college Good habits are important to start early,” said Laura Tarbox, founder of Tarbox Group, a financial planning firm in Newport Beach. “Take your finances as seriously as you do your relatio
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06/08
Getting things ready for the financial new year
non member blog: Enough Wealth created 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Australia's financial year ends on 30 June, so I'm trying to tidy up some odds and ends and start the new financial year on the right foot. On Friday I finished off my assignments for the BTeach subject I was studying this semester, so this long week
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06/07
Trail rebates and a free lunch
non member blog: Enough Wealth created 1 month, 2 weeks ago
I got a couple of emails recently from YourShare.com.au confirming that they had finalised the paperwork required to nominate them as my 'broker' for my various various managed fund and margin loan accounts. They should now start to receive the trail
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06/06
True Level of USA Federal Deficiet
curiouscat - member blog: Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog created 1 month, 2 weeks ago
What’s the real federal deficit? by Dennis Cauchon, 2006 The set the government promotes to the public has a healthier bottom line: a $318 billion deficit in 2005. The set the government doesn’t talk about is the audited financial statem
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06/05
12 Stocks for 10 Years Update - June 2008
curiouscat - member blog: Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog created 1 month, 3 weeks ago
I originally setup the 10 stocks for 10 years portfolio in April of 2005. At this time the stocks in the sleep well portfolio in order of returns: Stock Current Return % of sleep well portfolio now % of the portfolio if I were buying today Googl
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06/04
Forex CFD Trading Update: May 2008
non member blog: Enough Wealth created 1 month, 3 weeks ago
My AUDUSD CFD trading produced a small loss for the month of May. I did get my account balance up to $2600 a couple of times during the month, but a couple of losing streaks offset the steady trickle of small gains. I seem to be able to make small pr
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06/02
Networth Update: May 2008
non member blog: Enough Wealth created 1 month, 3 weeks ago
May showed gains in my stock and retirement accounts, but a drop in the valuations of our property portfolio more than offset the gains and I ended the month down (-0.32%) for the month, to $1,069,041: Property valuations -$14,527 (-1.71%) to +$834
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06/01
Expectations
curiouscat - member blog: Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog created 1 month, 3 weeks ago
I would guess a majority of people that read this blog are in the top 2% of earnings in the world. Many might not think they expect to live with more economic wealth than 98% of the world but their expectations seem to indicate that they do. General
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05/27
Tweaking my Portfolio Benchmark
non member blog: Enough Wealth created 1 month, 4 weeks ago
The first attempt at creating a benchmark for my portfolio performance produced figures that pass the reasonableness test. But the benchmark would better represent my asset mix if I changed it from 50% Australian stocks to 30% Au stocks and 20% Inter
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05/26
Want Huge Returns…Check This Out!
MakeMadMoneyWk - member blog: Make Mad Money Work created 2 months ago
Just a heads up to all you Cramericans…if you are looking for HUGE gains you need to check out these stock picks! This site is full of great stock picks updated throughout the day with a system that truly works…you owe it to yourself t
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