Posted on April 28, 2008 at 5:57 am
By Megan in Barr Family Blog
On Saturday, Ryan and I walked in the March of Dimes’ March for Babies along w/ 11 other Stroller Strides Modesto teammates. The weather was beautiful (not nearly as hot as last year!), and everyone was in really good spirits. As a team, we managed to raise over $2000. I was able to contribute $550, [...]
So, if you’ve read any of my other posts on personal finance you’ve likely figured out that I think debt (that doesn’t make you any money) is bad. If debt is bad, and you have it, then you’re goal should be to get out of it!
How to get out of bad debt…
There are two mainstream [...]
Here we go again. It’s just about option expiration Friday and it’s looking like the papermoney and my personal positions are all shaping up to be quite nice. I’ve also put out a few orders for a few new May positions, basically copying the current April ones and rolling them out. I’ll [...]
Posted on April 14, 2008 at 10:55 am
By Ryan in Personal Finance
Borrow from your 401k.
A few days ago I was at a dinner party with some friends. We were talking about a ton of different issues from politics to economics and during the course of the conversation privatization of retirement plans came up. One of the folks in the conversation said that he supported [...]
With about a week to go until expiration it’s time to give an update on my current positions.
Papermoney
The papermoney positions for this month are in great shape! As I write this post on Sunday, the last trade on the DIA(76.06 +0.00) was at 123 and the SPY(75.45 +0.00) at 133. Those two quotes [...]
There has been a lot of noise lately about lenders “freezing” HELOCs across the country. For those of you that don’t know what a HELOC is here is a quick breakdown.
A HELOC, or Home Equity Line of Credit is a revolving credit line that uses the equity of your house to secure the debt. So, [...]
I’m sure you’ve all seen the commercials for Visa were the guy stops the progress of society by paying in cash…. Well, in my opinion that guy or gal is the smartest one in the room!
The dangers of credit cards…
The simple reason that I think cash is the best way to go is that it [...]
A major US Bank, a large vehicle financial firm and a student loan servicer own me.
Okay, so maybe that is a strong statement. They don’t really own me, but they sure do dictate what I do on a monthly basis. “Just as the rich rule the poor, so the borrower is servant to the [...]
Posted on April 1, 2008 at 9:16 pm
By Ryan in Business School
I’ve been getting a lot of questions from people asking why Kellogg? So here are a few of my reasons:
It is absolutely one of the best schools in the country
Did I mention that Kellogg is one of the absolute best schools in the country? You can qualify this any any numbers of ways, but the [...]
