If you are a mutual fund investor, you’ve probably heard talk of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis (EMH, not to be confused with EMT or Emergency Medical Technician) being bandied about at one point or another. In a nutshell, EMH maintains that the stock market and similar markets are efficient. That is to say, the price […]
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The week before last, we covered some techniques on job interviewing techniques, which turned out to be perfectly timed, as I had two job interviews last week and the blog entries were a nice refresher course on the dos and do nots. Of course, as I mentioned in that entry, your job hunting task doesn’t
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I like many things about economics, including the tendency to explain complicated issues through the use of metaphors and other stories. One of my favorite economic stories is the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’. For those of you who haven’t taken Economics 101 (or decided it would be a better use of your time to sleep
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One thing that I truly dread doing is job hunting. Unfortunately, I’ve been doing it nearly constantly since I graduated from college. (I graduated in the spring of 2005, for anyone who is curious.) Even when I had a job, I was always searching for a better job, a job in a different location, a
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(Ah, Tuesday, that most impressive day of the week. Known for coming after Monday, being the day before trash day in my neighborhood, and of course, a new Investing 101 column here on the Amateur Financier! At times I wonder just how many Investing 101 columns I can keep producing until I exhaust all the
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