Weekend Linkage – October 4, 2009
We were quite happy with the apartment we rent until last week when the neighbor upstairs started to make this huge noise, some time it didn’t stop until 1:00 in the morning. Last Wednesday, when I worked from home, the pounding noise every few minutes almost drove me crazy. So I went upstairs to see [...]
Weekend Linkage – September 13, 2009
This is the first full weekend for us in our new home in northern Virginia. Last weekend was all about packing, moving, and unpacking. This weekend, as we finally settled down, we took advantage of the gorgeous September weather to explore the area a little bit more. As it turned out, we are actually located [...]
Weekend Linkage – July 26, 2009
I spent most of the time last night and another two hours this morning shredding our documents as we are getting closer to moving to Virginia. Believe me, it isn’t any easy job because we have accumulate more then ten years of bank statements, credit card bills, investment records, and pay stubs. Even though [...]
Weekend Linkage – July 11, 2009
Do you know exactly one year ago on this day, July 11, 2008, crude oil price climbed to its all-time high of $147 a barrel? Today you can buy a barrel of oil at less than $60, 60% lower than its peak. Oil price dropped like a rock since reaching the peak last year, bottoming [...]
Weekend Linkage – May 31, 2009
It was a rare, gorgeous day yesterday, so we took the kids to a nearby farm to pick our own strawberry, the first time ever for us. Too bad that we didn’t know the hours of the farm before leaving home in the afternoon. When we arrived, we were told that we only had less [...]
Weekend Linkage – April 19, 2009
It finally feels like spring.
We took the kids to Branch Brook Park near Newark yesterday for the Cherry Blossom Festival, the first time in more than seven years. In the past, we usually took our children to DC in early April to see the cherry flowers, but this year we decided to stay close to [...]
Weekend Linkage – March 22, 2009
We took our daughters 65 miles east today to visit The New York Botanical Garden, where there’s a Orchid Show going on right now. It’s the first time we have ever been there (though we lived on the other side of the city for years) and the kids really enjoyed the trip.
With the kids running [...]
Weekend Linkage – March 15, 2009
Market Recap
It has been quite a long time since we had a rally in the stock market like the one we had last week as investors were encouraged by comments made by Citigroup and Bank of America chiefs that the nations largest banks were profitable in the first two months of this year. The rally [...]
Weekend Linkage – March 1, 2009
Market Recap
As I mentioned yesterday, February turned out to be a very bad month for stocks. In the last week of the month, stocks retreated to below the November 2008 lows. For the week, the Dow dropped 4.11% to 7062.93, the S&P 500 tumbled 4.54% to 735.09, and the Nasdaq declined 4.40% to 1377.84. Precious [...]
Weekend Linkage – February 7, 2009
Market recap
It’s rare to see the stock market and the unemployment rate go hand in hand, but it did happen last Friday when the Labor Department reported that 598K workers lost their jobs in January, pushing the unemployment rate to 7.6%. At the same, the stock market also rallied more than 2%. The reason? The [...]
