Archive for the 'Personal Finance' Category

New U.S. Dollar Coin

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

New U.S. Dollar Coin

by Das Brain

This is just a short blurb on the new U.S. dollar coin.

Canadians have had our one dollar coin called the “loony” for a long time. It’s called a “loony” because there is a loon bird engraved on the coin so I wonder what nick names Americans our going to give the new U.S. dollar coin. How about “the George”, because I think “Washington” is already taken for another bill denomination, just a suggestion. We will see.

Does Your Credit Card “Benefit” You In Anyway?

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

by Das Brain

Does Your Credit Card “Benefit” You In Anyway?

You must be asking yourself, what in high heavens does Das Brain mean?

Well, let me put it this way. Does it give you any sort of reward points? Like Air Miles, Sony points, points for department stores or a certain hotels / airlines?

Next question to ask yourself is, does the credit card charge you an annual fee?

Living Way Beyond Your Means - Going For Broke - 1

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

living beyond your means

Most of my posts recently have been about stock, option trading and my internet ventures, so I decided that it is about time I write an article on the subject of personal finance.

Kiyosaki Is Right - Mutual Funds Get Greedy

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

I came across this article first thing this morning on Yahoo Finance. It is from Yahoo Finance, and one of its expert panel writers Robert Kiyosaki. I agree with the article simply because I worked in the financial industry for a good six years, and I know that Mutual Funds do take their chunk from the investor in the form of M.E.R (manage expense ratio). This of course cuts into the return of the investor.

I Don’t Want To Be “Laid Off”

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

by Das Brain

In my last post, about why I seriously decided to be an entrepreneur I listed “I don’t want to be laid off” as one of my reasons.