Tag: Financial Stuff

  • I Don’t Get It.

    I have nothing against credit card companies or other commercial lenders. They provide a valuable service at the rates (prices) the free market will bear, and that’s a good thing. That said, I am sometimes amazed at some of the great deals a credit card company will offer me. Like the cash-back program one credit…

  • Scary Economics

    During the Republican debate at the Reagan Library, John McCain was asked: [Do] you have a plan to help people with bad credit get lower interest rates so they can keep those homes and avoid foreclosure[?] Any answer to that other than “No,” “What?”, or “Why?” demonstrates a misunderstanding of how we got to where…

  • How to Design and Backtest a Trading System

    I have been working for some time on various systems for trading stocks, and thought I would share some of my observations and the lessons I have learned.

  • Budget – Yes!

    I just finished working through my in-school budget – it looks like it’s in pretty good shape. I didn’t try to work it out, until now, because there were just too many unknowns for my first month or so in a new (and more expensive than I am used to) city, especially with book purchases…

  • $4 Gasoline – Coming Soon, to a Pump Near You

    I’ve been saying for years, now, that $4/gallon gasoline is an inevitability in the United States. Between the fragility of global oil production, the popularity of gas-guzzlers and the fondness of legislators of tacking on all sorts of gas taxes, it is bound to happen. Well, it looks like it’s happening a few months earlier…