Everything That's Wrong With You And Your Money
$40,610,000,000. That’s the profit Exxon Mobil made last year. It’s a record, not just for oil, but everyone. $10,900,000,000. That’s the profit Exxon Mobil made in the first quarter of 2008. Annualize that and you’ve got another record year in 2008. Congress has once again pulled in the oil executives to explain themselves. As in [...]
Twitter. Likely you’ve noticed in my sidebar The Weakonomist Twitter Feed. What’s Twitter? That was certainly my thought when I first heard of it. Well the answer is difficult. If you’ve ever used an instant messaging program like AIM, MSN Messenger, or in my case, Pidgin then you’ll know what an away message is. The [...]
Of the founding principles of Weakonomics, the lack of personal finance education in the populous is likely the most important. Weakon 119 is not an intro to personal finance, its an exploration of why there is no personal finance education. Few of us are motivated by personal finance until tragedy strikes. Its why most PF [...]
Intro: I’ve mentioned this a few times, but now its actually time to do it. I’m rolling my Roth IRA from Scottrade to Vanguard. There were times in the past when this could have been done, but I wanted to reach a certain goal before opening the account. I reached that goal so now its [...]
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