As a college student, Eva bought her first individual stocks in January 2010 after doing substantial fundamental analysis on the companies. She is interested in personal finance and investor behavior, and hopes to help others make sense of their financial future through writing.
This week on @blueleaf we posted a number of great articles from our favorite blogs and websites. We hope you enjoy the weekly link round-up below. Special Report: Mistakes, Misfortune, Meltdown: Japan’s Quake -Reuters Lack Of Leadership Prolongs Mortgage Settlement Talks – American Banker The FDIC’s WaMu Suit – Felix Salmon Working With A Financial Advisor: Whom Do You Trust? – Consumerism Commentary Who’s Afraid Of Elizabeth Warren? – Baseline Scenario Regulatory Uncertainty – Rortybomb Don’t Beat Yourself Up Over Your Investing Mistakes – Out Of Your Rut What Does Diversification Mean To You? – Sweating The Big Stuff How Dumb? – Baseline Scenario The Value Of Undergraduate Business School – Wall Street Oasis The Wealthy Need $7.5 Million To Feel Wealthy – Bargaineering Dangerously High – Buttonwood Why Market Aftershocks Will Continue – Felix Salmon Japan Quake & Tsunami: Read More…
This week on @blueleaf we linked some especially good articles from Barel Karsan and Money Morning below, and a number of other from blogs we recommend. We hope you enjoy the weekly link round-up below. Is There A Future For Hydrogen? – David Anthony VC Should You Borrow Against Your House To Buy Stocks? – Felix Salmon “A Healthy Financial System Cannot Be Built On The Expectation Of Bailouts” – Baseline Scenario What Is Form 6251: Alternative Minimum Tax – Bargaineering Measuring A Client’s Financial Health – Investment News Planning For Uneven Retirement Spending – Oblivious Investor Anchoring That Overconfidence – Barel Karsan Is Happiness Conservative? – Baseline Scenario Is It A Good Idea For The Credit Market To Ease? – Free From Broke Obama’s Tightrope – Project Syndicate What Is Position Trading? – The Digetari Life Should Obama Tap Read More…
This week on @blueleaf we linked a number of articles on personal finance and economics. We hope you enjoy the weekly link round-up below. Commodity Supply And Demand: Is Malthus Back? – Buttonwood What A Financial Advisor Can And Cannot Do For You – Asset Allocator Inferior Mutual Fund Performance – Best No Load Mutual Funds The Perfect Retirement Myth – Money Smarts The Population Bomb Echoes – Zero Hedge Getting Real – The Daily Capitalist It’s Not Just About Costs – Buttonwood More On Commodities And Malthus – Buttonwood The Problem With Negative Real Interest Rates – Synthetic Assets Not My Father’s Recession – Christina Romer Misunderstanding Data On Economic Growth – Synthetic Assets Price Movements Are The Point Of Real-Time Transparency – Synthetic Assets Does The U.S. Really Have A Fiscal Crisis? – Baseline Scenario Pensions Become Unrecognized Read More…
This week on @blueleaf we included more articles on the economy than we did on personal finance. The two are heavily intertwined, and we hope that you enjoy the weekly link round-up below, especially the articles from The Economist’s Buttonwood Blog. Growth Stutters – Buttonwood 25 Guys To Avoid On Wall Street – CNBC Health Index Measure Of America – American Human Development Project January Consumer Confidence Jumps To 60.6 – Market Watch Fire And Water – Buttonwood Contagion Effect – Buttonwood Dreman Positions Portfolio For Inflation – Guru Investor Financial Myths College Grads Need To Stop Believing – The Financial Blogger Is Economics The Problem? – Baseline Scenario The Future Of Public Debt – Investor Insight Do I Hear $202 Trillion? – Buttonwood A Bad Habit Continues – Buttonwood Why A Country’s Economy Can Grow “Too Fast” – Intelligent Read More…
This week on @blueleaf we includes a couple of great articles from Project Syndicate, Felix Salmon, and Rortybomb. We hope you enjoy the weekly link round-up below. Wall Street Billion Dollar Madoff Tax – Felix Salmon How Unemployment Is Dropping: Welcome Future “Marginally Attached To The Labor Force” Workers To Our Economy – Rortybomb Empirical Evidence About How The Foreclosure Crisis Is Impacting The Economy – Rortybomb Unsettling America – Project Syndicate The Green Shoots Of The Green Economy – Project Syndicate New Mutual Funds For Fighting Inflation – Go To Retirement Ten Ways To Stop Inflation From Destroying Your Wealth – Monevator Art As An Investable Asset Class – Felix Salmon What The Decline Of Stocks Means To You – Felix Salmon What Do You Think Of President Obama’s Budget Proposal? – Money Morning Bad Data – Baseline Scenario Read More…
This week on @blueleaf we included a few articles on relevant news stories, a few very opinionated pieces, and personal finance articles with good advice. We hope you enjoy the weekly link round-up below. For Pensions, ‘Absolute Return’ Strategies and Other Non-Core Investments Are Back In Style – Seeking Alpha Tax-Smart Ways To Tap Your Nest Egg – Kiplinger Personal Finance There’s Good And Bad Debt – Barel Karsan So Many Boomers, So Little Savings – Go To Retirement How Much Work Is Do It Yourself Investing? – Oblivious Investor Hedging Strategies: Tight Trailing Stops And Index Funds – Money Morning Chamber Of Commerce And The President Of GE Have A Plan To Restore Business Confidence And Create Jobs – Rortybomb Investors Calm As Egypt Erupts – Investment News What’s In A Bond Rating? – Good Financial Cents Wall Street Read More…
This week on @blueleaf we included a group of articles on stocks: how to think about the stock market, when how the market is doing is relevant to your investing and when not, what does rebalancing mean, etc. We hope you enjoy the weekly link round-up below. Three Takes On JP Morgan & Madoff – Felix Salmon Egypt Protests Could Lead To $150 Oil – Money Morning Unemployed Still Far More Likely To Drop Out Than To Find A Job – Rortybomb The Debate Over GSE And The 30-Year Fixed Mortgage – Rortybomb 7 IRA Changes That You Must Know For 2011 – Good Financial Cents SEC To Meld Searches For Advisor, Broker Info – Investment News Cash Levels High Or Low? – Barel Karsan The State Of The Union, Personal Finance Edition – Money Watch Is Greece Riskier Than Read More…
This week on @blueleaf we posted a number of articles on the U.S. economy. Hope you enjoy the weekly link round-up below. Should You Have Money In A Roth AND Traditional IRA? – Money Help For Christians A Rescue Plan For The U.S. Economy – Money Morning Why Education Was Stressed So Heavily In The State Of The Union – Peridot Capitalist Are You Saving Too Much For Retirement? – Generation X Finance Taxpayers Ring Up Profit On Citigroup Bailout – Money Morning State Of The Union: Why you Should Fear America’s Sputnik Moment – Money Morning Why You Shouldn’t Automatically Reinvest Dividends – Five Cent Nickel Best 529 Plans – 2009 Edition – Five Cent Nickel When To Sell Your Stocks – NYT Bucks Back To Full Employment, Losing The Demand Thing – Rortybomb How You Earned Your Money Read More…
This week on @blueleaf we posted a couple of great articles on the crisis in Europe and links to two interesting infographics by The Digetari Life. We hope you enjoy these articles and others in the weekly link round-up below. Treasury’s Astonishing Statement On U.S. Default – Felix Salmon Risky Growth Engines – Project Syndicate Average American Family’s Finances (Infographic) – The Digetari Life 2011 Dividend Tax Rates – Consumer Boomer Stocks Saying We’re Healing; Prices Saying Look Out – Kudlow’s Money Politics Are You Responsible For Your Spouse’s Debt? – Moolanomy Investing With The Herd – NYT Bucks Remember To Comparison Shop Index Funds – Bargaineering Study: College Students Aren’t Learning Basic Skills – Consumerism Commentary Don’t Buy Index Annuities – Felix Salmon Financial Advice From The Feds – Coming Soon? – Bank Of Dad The Stock Market ‘Double Read More…
Enjoy two weeks worth of relevant and creative links below. Tax Strategies Using ETFs – Cafe Tax Emerging Market Risks – Oblivious Investor Why Your Tax Withholding Went Up – Bargaineering How Important Is Income Diversification? -Passive Income Now Is The Stock Market Rigged?? – Out Of Your Rut Smoothing Out Market Fluctuations Using Dollar Cost Averaging – Spruce Up Your Finances Two Top Stock Strategists Cautious On Economy, Bullish On Stocks – Guru Investor Should You And Your Spouse Combine Money – Consumerism Commentary The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) – Consumerism Commentary Don’t Get Rich Any Slower Than You Have To – Get Rich Slowly Disclosure At The Center Of Fiduciary Tug Of War – Investment News How To Ace Tough Job Interviews – I Will Teach You To Be Rich Jobless Rate Drops To 9.4% – But What’s Read More…