Good week so far? Yes? No? (And which day is a 'week' considered over?).
From a site-runner's perspective, it's nice to see the traffic that disappeared in the holidays (and more!) come back in the early year numbers. But, let's be honest - we're just biding time until the tax articles, a topic that Cameron knows under-serves some income brackets and tax situations... ever consider where the bulk of tax articles are generally targeted?
Anyway, we've still got some stock and market commentary to get out of the way - I owe you a recount/audit of my active investing failing over the last 18 months, then we'll be finishing up the net worth series. But, today, we link to others...
Links We Liked!
- Financial Uproar leads again, due to Nelson's article ripping on backtesting (his new battle for the year? Is the DGI war over?). It's true - you can data mine yourself into seeing a pattern which was, well, random... especially if you miss out on a few problematic sectors (real estate, finance, energy, technology... depending how far back you test).
- The Swiss Central Bank unexpectedly announced it wouldn't continue to enforce its 'peg' (it's not a peg!) of 1.2 Francs to a Euro. The results? Whoosh - I'll let our friend Makin' Sense Babe explain.
- Political Calculations sees more encouragement that the current prevailing gas prices is having positive effects on teenage unemployment.
- The Planting Our Pennies have some interesting news - their approval for a solar system on their house, and a short (five years!) estimated payoff.
- At Budgets Are Sexy, an interesting - dare we say 'unsexy' - job description which was just way to interesting to pass up. Cleaning septic tanks for money!
- At My Money Blog, a retrospective of the relative performance of various asset classes over the last two decades. Quite interesting!
- Save Spend Splurge shows off some glass which has controllable opacity - ready for your next bathroom project. "Hey, can you see through this?"
