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Triple My Money: How Long and What Does It Take?
You are probably familiar with the Rule of 72, which tells you when the one dollar you invest today will be worth $2 once you have a rate of growth. If your annual rate of return is R%, then it will take you (72/R) years to double your money. For instance, for a 6% return [...]
Spam Email Dated June 2002
My Yahoo email account indicated that I had a new email, but I just couldn’t find anything new after going through the first 50 emails. Where’s it?Well, I eventually found it, but not until I almost reached the end of my Inbox folder. It was an email dated June 3, 2002.What are they trying to do? Make you take a little bit longer to find and delete it? Or [...] Continue Reading…
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What’s Your Nest Egg Score?
Following a link in Flexo’s recent post, I arrived at A.G. Edwards’ Nest Egg Score page. I am not how crediable the score is, thought A. G. Edwards claimes that it is “designed to be a comprehensive indicator of how well U.S. households are doing at building personal wealth.” Out of curiosity, I took the quiz to see what’s my score and how it was compared with the [...] Continue Reading…
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Do You Have A Hot Job?
Beside being a blogger (if that’s what you do to make a living), do you have a hot job? Kiplinger’s Personal Finance today runs a list of hot jobs and the defination of “hot” is the job’s expected growth rate for a ten year period from 2004 to 2014.1. Network systems and data communications analyst (54.6%)Degree: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or information science.Median salary: $60,6002. Physician [...] Continue Reading…
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If Everybody Uses Firefox
and installs the Adblock extension, will Google AdSense make no sense?When Adblock is disabled.When Adblock is enabled. How neat is that!Categories: Weblog, General, Technorati tags:AdSense, Advertising, Weblog
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Aetna Dropped Our Hospital
My wife is three-month pregnant and we went to our hospital this afternoon for a scheduled ultrasound screening. We were excited to have a chance to see the baby again, however, the news we got before the procedure almost took the anticipation away: Starting from Sept. 19th, our hospital will no longer be in Aetna’s network!The news really shocked us as we already scheduled for Amniocentsis later this [...] Continue Reading…
