Archive for June, 2008
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
We’ll Miss You Tim
I have a very select shows on TV that I look forward to watching and every Sunday, I made it a point to watch Tim Russert’s Meet the Press. I’m sorry to see him gone and my condolences to all of Tim’s family. Bookmark to: Hide Sites $$(‘div.d569′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
No Comments » - Posted in Misc by RichSlick
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
Have You Tried Intrade Yet?
I’ve been hooked on Intrade for a while and I’m just fascinated with probability markets. I only use “play” money but it’s fun nonetheless. Do you think John McCain will win the presidency on 2008? Why not buy a contract that pays you cash if he does? Do you think a 9.0 earthquake will hit [...]
No Comments » - Posted in MMO by RichSlick
Friday, June 13th, 2008
Repost – Forget Frugalism and Embrace Capitalism
This is the grand daddy of posts that has spawned so many other discussions regarding frugalism vs. capitalism and some people have been recently trying to straddle the fence by calling themselves “frugal capitalist” which is complete bull, in my opinion, but that’s a post for another day. Originally posted in December 2006. A frugalist [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Money Management by RichSlick
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Repost – A Review of 100 Bloggers
I wrote this post in December of 2006 and there were much fewer PF Blogs back then than there are now and oddly enough, I doubt the ratio has changed much from what I described below a year and a half ago. I ran across a blog which listed 100 Top Bloggers and I figured [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Observations by RichSlick
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Repost – Top 10 Excuses Why You’re Not Getting Rich
I wrote this series exactly a year ago and I continue to observe people still use these excuses although I must say that with Barak Obama becoming the Democratic Presidential nominee and Hillary Clinton coming close, I’m not hearing excuse #6 that often these days. I’ve counted down the top 10 excuses I’ve heard over [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Excuses by RichSlick
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Repost – Professional ToolBox Most Managers Should Have To Earn Big Buck$
I wrote this post to answer a few questions I kept getting about my successes personally and professionally and I continue to get an occasional e-mail on this post every now and then. Originally published May 2007. Health care, Energy & Technology fields are red hot right now and various colleagues have been asking me [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Careers by RichSlick
Monday, June 9th, 2008
Repost – Top 5 Things I Outsource In My Life
Originally published in October 2007, I continue to outsource these things and have a strong desire to outsource more. I’ll have a future post on my future outsourcing plans. I outsource many things in my life and I have strong rationale for doing so, it saves me the most valuable commodity out there: time! Here’s [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Money Management by RichSlick
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Vacation Time
I’m taking a vacation this week so I’ll be reposting some of my favorite posts from the past couple of years of blogging. I’ll likely not be able to respond to comments for the duration of the week and I may be on extensive business travel after that so I’m apologizing before hand if my [...]
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Oil at $138/barrel, Inflation Still Well Contained
I can’t wait for the next Fed meeting minutes so we can read about how inflation is so well contained. I guess gasoline will be around $4.50 to $4.75 over the next couple of weeks now but don’t worry, there’s no inflation because that big screen TV is a hundred dollars cheaper! Which event will [...]
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Index Fund Investors, Where’s Your Messiah Now?
I’ve been looking at a five year chart of the Dow and it just looks ugly, it begged the question, where is index fund investors messiah now? Bogle suggested decades ago that index investing was the way to beat the market and I have no doubt the theory and math behind it was correct but [...]