Posts for The Personal Finance Playbook


Peter Buffett’s Ninety Grand

From The Personal Finance Playbook
March 10, 2010 at 3:56 pm
I’ve seen lots of articles about “buy and hold” lately – one of the popular ones on the blogosphere recently is about the lady who bought $180 worth of ... (more)

Bottom-Up Investors

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March 6, 2010 at 4:58 pm

I was talking to a friend about investing the other day and was questioned when I used the expression “bottom up investors.”  (As an aside, I love to talk about investing.

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Jack Bogle on Financial Regulation

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March 3, 2010 at 12:12 am

I just thought I would share this interview with Jack Bogle, founder of Vanguard.  I’m not sure that I agree with regard to limiting what banks can invest in, but I definitely

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Simon Says

From The Personal Finance Playbook
March 1, 2010 at 2:24 pm
I was talking to a good friend of mine earlier tonight about the stock market (one of my favorite topics!).  He mentioned to me that his brother (who works for a major discount ... (more)

The Berkshire Letter – One More Thing

From The Personal Finance Playbook
February 28, 2010 at 1:47 pm
(Tilson comes on about 2 minutes in – ignore everyone on the video before him;) One thing I didn’t mention in my previous post that I started to wish I had when ... (more)

2009 Berkshire Hathaway Letter to Shareholders

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February 27, 2010 at 7:07 pm

For fellow Buffett fans, reading his annual letters is one of life’s little pleasures.  You get an insight into what he’s thinking and why he thinks it.  The 2009

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Effective Yield

From The Personal Finance Playbook
February 22, 2010 at 7:00 am
Every company is faced with a question of whether earnings should be returned to investors (who own the company) to be invested as they wish, or re-invested in the company by ... (more)

Thoughts on Gift Cards

From The Personal Finance Playbook
February 18, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Disclosure - Long HD;) I know I haven’t blogged in awhile, and realize that this is an odd topic to bring me out of my blogging hibernation.  I actually have dozens of ... (more)

What Matters Now

From The Personal Finance Playbook
December 15, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Here’s something I read that I believe is worth the time it takes to read.  Enjoy.  I’ll be back blogging soon. No related posts. Related posts brought to you ... (more)

What Makes for a Great Salesperson?

From The Personal Finance Playbook
November 25, 2009 at 11:08 am
I read a blog post the other day about what makes some people great salespeople.  The post paints a picture of salespeople as intense cut throats that will do anything to close ... (more)

Healthcare. Groan.

From The Personal Finance Playbook
November 24, 2009 at 7:00 am
Healthcare can be a pain in the ass. This is the first post from one of the site’s new contributors.  Josh is a personal trainer and actor living in NYC.  In addition ... (more)

A Lost and Found Full of Free Money

From The Personal Finance Playbook
November 23, 2009 at 7:00 am
I don’t think I could have married someone that’s more supportive than my wife.  She’s extremely supportive of all the things I do.  I’m the kind of ... (more)

An Easy Way to Save Fuel and Money

From The Personal Finance Playbook
November 20, 2009 at 11:11 am
Unfortunately I did not have a lot of time to put into this post.  My original plan was to discuss the enormous energy losses that are the direct result of poor traffic management. ... (more)

Buffett and Goldman Team Up to Help Small Business

From The Personal Finance Playbook
November 19, 2009 at 7:00 am
Seriously, though, I just want to help you out. I hear and see a lot of conspiracy theories out there about Goldman Sachs.  More than any other investment banks or companies, ... (more)

Geoengineering and Super Freakonomics

From The Personal Finance Playbook
November 17, 2009 at 7:00 am
This guy is just hoping someone does something. “While there is a lot of room for a lot of legitimate debate about many aspects of global warming, let us say one thing ... (more)

Back to School and Blog Musings

From The Personal Finance Playbook
November 16, 2009 at 7:00 am
I like my job.  I don’t like everything about it, of course, but I like the fact that I have a job.  I like being an attorney (some days), and I feel like I’m ... (more)

Super Freakonomics Review

From The Personal Finance Playbook
November 13, 2009 at 7:00 am
I finished my copy of the sequel to Freakonomics on a plane on the way back from visiting my wife’s family in Long Island, NY.  I like traveling, in that I like going ... (more)

The Zen of Scott Boras

From The Personal Finance Playbook
November 12, 2009 at 7:00 am
Make it $300 million and you've got yourself a deal. For as long as I can remember, in any setting, big businesses have been viewed as the bad guys and the workers have been ... (more)

Target Date Retirement Funds

From The Personal Finance Playbook
November 11, 2009 at 7:00 am
I see a lot of criticisms for Target Date Retirement Funds. Recently, I’ve seen a lot of commentary about how much money many of the funds have lost during the last year. ... (more)

Break a Leg

From The Personal Finance Playbook
November 9, 2009 at 7:00 am
Once, when I was about 13, I broke my leg in a motorcycle accident. My dad picked me up and carried me into the house, shushing my howls all the way there. He wasn’t ... (more)

A Lesson in Being a Good Guy

From The Personal Finance Playbook
November 5, 2009 at 7:00 am
I just thought this was an interesting and cool news story, but when this guard was attacked and put in a choke hold by one inmate, other inmates rushed to his aid and even ... (more)

Merger and Acquisition Talk

From The Personal Finance Playbook
November 3, 2009 at 2:41 pm
If you woke up this morning and read the business news, you may have noticed that Warren Buffett (through Berkshire Hathaway), the patron saint of investing, has made a tender ... (more)

Lending Club Update

From The Personal Finance Playbook
November 3, 2009 at 7:00 am
I funded my Lending Club account before Lending Club had been approved in Missouri.  As much as anything else, I was excited by the idea.  Instead of putting that portion ... (more)

Red-Light Cameras

From The Personal Finance Playbook
November 2, 2009 at 7:00 am
There’s been some controversy swirling around St. Louis the last few years regarding Red-Light cameras.  If you aren’t familiar with what they are (I guess it’s ... (more)

Become an Organ Donor

From The Personal Finance Playbook
October 29, 2009 at 6:00 am
My father died when I was sixteen years old.  It’s a topic I try to be careful about how I approach.  As a kid, people would treat me a little different if they knew ... (more)