Weekend Reading: August 10, 2008
Last night, I switched Moolanomy over from the custom theme I wrote to a magazine-style theme based on Mimbo by Darren Hoyt. The most significant changes occur on the front page where you’ll now see magazine layout with Lead Story and Featured section. You can also see most recent articles with a quick glance (in [...]
My family is going on a vacation for a few days. We’re going as far south as Virginia Beach on this trip and I look forward to see the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel and neighboring area. I will be resuming my normal schedule by July 14th. I wish everyone a happy and safe 4th of July [...]
In prior posts, I shared some financial math tricks and demonstrated a quick way to calculate your retirement needs. Now I am going to put the two together and use these rules, along with some historical inflation data, to give you a quick estimate of annual income needed for a comfy retirement.
Historical inflation data from [...]
Here are 6 cool financial math tricks and rules that I know about. These are pretty common, so you may know them already. Take a look. Do you know any of these?
1. Rule of 72 To Double Your Money
The rule says that to find the number of years required to double your investment, you just [...]
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