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Posted by Don on November 12, 2009
Lending Club has increased their new account bonus to $40 when invited by an existing member. If you have ever thought about opening a lending club account you should look into it. Average returns for social lending at Lending Club are 9.67%.
If anyone is interested contact me at contact@keepmydollar.com and I will send [...]
Posted by admin on November 9, 2009
The Carnival of Personal Finance is up and running again this week at Canadian Finance Blog.
I have only had time to read two of the articles so far, but be sure to go and check out all the articles on the carnival. There are multiple topics and some of the best bloggers on the web [...]
Posted by admin on November 8, 2009
Having heard about Lending Club on several other blogs I recently opened an account. I had previously had an account with Prosper.Com, however I had never funded it because at the time I opened it they would only allow funding from a bank account.
My reasons for choosing Lending Club was mostly that I could fund [...]
Posted by Don on November 2, 2009
The Carnival of Personal Finance #229 has gone live at The Centsible Life and has included my article Simplicity leads to wealth.
From my reviews thus far the following are my favorites, but I have only read roughly half of them.
Extending the $8000 First Time Home Buyers Tax Credit into 2010 is a Terrible Idea [...]
Posted by Don on October 26, 2009
The Carnival of Personal Finance #228 is live now at Money Crashers.
Please be sure to go buy and check out all of the great articles. There are some extremely creative and intelligent bloggers out there with great information. Some of the favorites that I are listed below.
Does it matter who the “breadwinner” is anymore?
The Early [...]
Posted by Don on October 21, 2009
Don’t look now friends but the market staged a late day reversal in the face of very good earnings reports today. As evidenced in the article by Midnight Trader the market turned from up all day to a large drop in the last hour.
If you look at the chart, the S&P 500 is still in [...]
Posted by Don on October 20, 2009
If anyone has been looking at earnings lately the average stock is beating their earnings estimates for the 2nd quarter. According to Peter Boockvar, his earnings cheat sheet shows about 83% of companies beating their earnings estimates in Q3. Granted the expectations are lower than previously thought, but does anyone find it amazing the cost [...]
Posted by Don on September 15, 2009
Well the next in line of a string of good news lately is that Retail sales were up for August, PPI was up in August, and the Empire State Manufacturing survey was up in August.
Here is a rundown of today’s stats.
Retail sales up 2.7%
PPI up 1.7%
Empire State Manuf. Survey +18.9 up from +12.1
These are numbers [...]
Posted by Don on July 6, 2009
After the judges decision yesterday to allow the sale of its “good” assets to the new government controlled entity I have to wonder as an unsecured bondholder do I have any hope of recouping any of my investment?
There are still several things in the way of GM making a comeback as a viable entity. Lear [...]
Posted by admin on June 18, 2009
As a dad who has an anniversary the day after father’s day this year. I tried to give my children gift ideas that would not cost much, but I also try to ask for things that I need and would buy for myself. This saves me from getting things I don’t want and won’t use. [...]
