March 2007

Our Income Producing Stocks

March 31, 2007

A reader emailed us to inquire which income stocks we held. So, to show you how much money we get from our stock dividends, which income isues we have and how many shares we hold, a handy table of our income portfolio is below: The main point is we are getting around $680 dollars per [...]

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The State of My Budget

March 29, 2007

So, sometimes we blog about finance or current events. Other times we blog about personal matters. This posting deals with my limited budget and how I’m investing despite having little money. I’m currently pulling in about $1,850 before taxes. This is primarily from two sources of income; my assistantship at the University and dividends from [...]

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The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism

March 28, 2007

I’m snowed under with work at the University today, but I wanted to let our readers know about an interesting recent speech by John Bogle. In case you don’t know who John Bogle is, he is the founder of the Vanguard Group and is widely regarded as one of the grandfathers of index fund investing. [...]

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You owe $78! Do not pass go, do not collect $200!

March 27, 2007

Ack! This is one of the moments when you watch money go down the drain and dream of all the things you could do with that money if it wasn’t for stupid fees. It’s a detailed error, but the bottom line is that I made an error in my financial juggling that cost me $78 [...]

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Is Your Broker A Thief?

March 27, 2007

I like to talk about investing and saving money. Often when I’m chatting with my friends or colleagues, people will tell me that they think money brings out the worst in people or that stock brokers are all crooks. Because of this, they don’t want to invest. As a result, they tend to miss out [...]

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Price Fixing Case Before Court, DINKS Weigh In

March 26, 2007

Commenting on the news is something that we DINKS do only somewhat frequently. There is however a case coming before the U.S. Supreme Court which us of potential great importance to all consumers, and therefore merits some comment. The case is being brought before the court is an appeal being filed by Leegin Creative Leather [...]

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The DINKS Watch List

March 25, 2007

My wife and I have set the goal this year of maxing out our IRAs, so we’ve been talking a bit about what stock we might want to consider buying in our retirement accounts. Accordingly, we wanted to comment on two stocks were considering. We’re not endorsing either of these yet, but we did want [...]

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Wealth Building Through Real Estate

March 24, 2007

In the past, we’ve written about the luck we’ve had real estate investing. Today’s posting is along the same lines. Last week, I read about an interesting procedure in Adriane Berg’s Your Wealth Building Years for accruing real estate. Basically Berg says some simple steps will help you build real estate wealth*. They are: 1) [...]

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Teaching Children About Money

March 23, 2007

A while ago, a good old friend of mine told me his parents hadn’t saved much for their retirement. I was shocked to hear that, because having grown up around his family, they were always a very responsible, loving and well organized. My sense is my friend’s situation may be farely typical. Many parents don’t [...]

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Networth – What is included

March 22, 2007

This post is actually in response to a comment that was left on our post “The DINKs Wealth, What’s Working & What’s Not”. I felt that it brought up some good decision points in terms of what is included in net worth. The basic question was why we include furniture as part of our net [...]

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