I'm getting (staying?) sloppy - I let an engineering post slip missing pictures and video. Six years in and I still can't schedule correctly, haha.
Let's try that again this week, shall we? Don't tell your friends what it was; it's supposed to be a surprise! (Plus I have to upload to YouTube - joy.)
Anyway, here's some good stuff you should be reading.
Links We Liked!
- At Funny About Money, "To Rescue a Mockingbird". But, seriously, be careful with bird law.
- At A Wealth of Common Sense - if there is a stock fall, what will happen to (probably) overpriced high yield bonds?
- The most fascinating reveal from Budgets are Sexy's post on production fit modeling - getting the cover of a magazine is usually only worth $250.
- Mixed feelings on the Bloomberg piece about student loans, and how default and collections is a huge mess.
- A Trio of hits at Political Calculations:
- From Financial Uproar: Is 10% the right savings number for retirement?
- Cliff Asness defends work criticized as 'data mining' in quantitative investing.
- The PoPs deal with a letter from their insurance company about a roof. A few years back we were dropped because of our pit bull mix - and we're happy to report that other than escaping one time while we were out of town (and the house was being house-sat), he's been a model dog-citizen. Props to our current firm (Farmers) for taking the 'chance' on our puppy.
- Free By 50 gives us an organic food delivery deathmatch - Safeway or Whole Foods?
- Save. Spend. Splurge. gives the short story of how she quickly paid off $60,000 in debt in the first half of her 20s.
