As a consequence of the recent downturn in the stock market, one investing philosophy that has made a remarkable recovery is dividend stocks. Rather than investing purely for capital appreciation (or the growth in stock prices over time), you invest to get paid a regular, quarterly dividend from your stocks. Besides the appeal of getting …
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 …
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 …
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 …
On Monday, I discussed several popular methods for paying off your debts. In the course of that discussion, I mentioned that paying off the accounts according to the interest they charge is the most effective method, while Dave Ramsey’s method (the Debt Snowball, or paying off the lowest balance account first) and David Bach’s method …
