Would You Sell 6% of Your Future Earnings for $600,000 Today? Meet Someone Who Just Did

August 12, 2010

I read an interesting Inc. article recently on some budding entrepreneurs who were looking for funding a new startup but didn’t have the means to raise cash in a conventional manner.  So, they basically sold a percentage of their future earnings for upfront cash now.  This is a really interesting concept.  Businesses do this all […]

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The Economics of Blogging – 5 Figure Side Job or Waste of Time?

August 9, 2010

Economics of Blogging is poorly understood by people who haven’t tried it, and even those who have.  To date, I’ve been hesitant to delve into blogging topics since this I usually stick to personal finance and investing topics.  However, given the reality that blogging does actually bring in a fairly sizable side income for me […]

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Weekend Reading: Life is Good Edition

August 5, 2010

In looking back and many of my posts, tweets and comments on other blogs, I seem like a cranky bastard.  Many of my writings would fall into the “complaints” category.  Sure, there’s a lot to complain about right now, but my energy could be directed in a more productive manner.  It’s good occasionally to step […]

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10 Dumbest Uses of Your Tax Dollars in Stimulus Bill

August 3, 2010

A recently released GOP paper on the stupid use of federal stimulus dollars has resulted in the typical dismissal from the administration and the mainstream media as “right wing partisan politics”, but there’s nothing wrong with pointing out the results of this ill-conceived hasty distribution of dollars from our children’s generation to the current one.  […]

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Bush Tax Cuts Expiring – How This is Likely to Play Out

August 3, 2010

With the Bush Tax Cuts set to expire at the end of this year if no action is taken, it’s going to be the political issue of the year going into mid-terms, likely pitting tax-cutters vs. tax-the-wealthy only camps against each other.  While it may seem like a binary event, the way this will play […]

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Investing is All Luck Says WSJ.com – I Beg to Differ

August 1, 2010

There was an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal this weekend pretty much attributed investing success to “luck” over given periods of time, as opposed to investor decision-making.  While I tend to agree with parts of their assessment, I can’t go for it hook, line and sinker and I’ll tell you why.  I’ll lay […]

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