Archive for January, 2008

Free Money: $25 Hallmark Insight Gift Card When Completing a Survey

Found this deal on Slickdeals.net.
The survey is about Microsoft Virtual Earth platform and will take 15 minutes to complete. A list of Hallmark Insight merchants can be found here (PDF file), including Amazon.com, Best Buy, and Circuit City, etc. To take the survey, use the link in the original Slickdeals post found (or this one).

Random News: Record Gold Price, Countrywide Bankruptcy Rumor, and Live 14 Years Longer

The last time that gold was at $875 an ounce level was 28 years ago on January 21, 1980. Since them, gold has been in an extended bear market in almost 20 years until the current upward trend started in 2001. Today, gold contract reached a new all time high at $883.89/ounce […]

TransUnion VantageScore Credit Score and What’re Different from FICO Score

Every January, May, and September is free credit report time for us and we have been getting one credit report for free every four months from one of the three credit bureaus for many years, well before the law that made everybody eligible for a free report every calendar year. On January 3, I requested […]

2007 Year End Review (III): Performance and Asset Allocation

This is the third part of our Year End Review, in which I have so far gone through financial moves we made in 2007 and how what we have done affected our net worth, which includes both new money and price appreciation of our existing investments. The latter is the subject of this part […]

Weekend Linkage - January 6, 2007

Silicon Valley Blogger at The Digerati Life discussed the true cost of relocation. Well, besides money and stress, the true REASON to relocate must be considered to evaluate the true cost.
My top mutual fund performers last year were all related to oil, a side effect of high oil price. Jeremy at Generation X Finance looked […]

The Dow: Worst Start of The Year Since 1929

I don’t know exactly when the worst ever start of the year was, but from the available data since 1928, the return of the first three days of the Dow in 2008 seems to be the worst since 1929. In the first 3 trading sessions of 2008, the benchmark lost a total of 464.64 points. […]

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