Staples has been offering great deals on their Windows 8 PC line recently. The $100 coupon off any PC (Laptop or Desktop) that was released today is one of the best. The offer is $100 off any Windows 8 PC that was regularly priced at $499 or above. What that means is that if there […]
Archives for August 2013
Education – how you pay matters
The US Tax Code is a hot mess, there, I said it. Reading it takes a large degree of skill, and any conclusions that you draw from it are often vague at best. However, all we can do is seek to find the best route through this quagmire, and wherever possible confirm everything with a […]
On Miles and Money
Today, I would like to explore my own set of Principles as it comes to saving and investing, to look for incongruous actions or habits, and attempt to align them, by adjusting my principles to incorporate them, or discard those that are not efficient. The reason for this is a feeling of dichotomy between my […]
A look at Incentivization, the Realtor’s Commission
Incentivization is what drives us to achieve all manner of goals, it is the reward we are given for successfully completing a task. In the workplace the more entrepreneurial the role the higher ratio of compensation to goal achievement is realized. A Realtor is a great example of this entrepreneurial compensation system, as are other […]
The stark reminder from the Nasdaq Crash
Yesterday the Nasdaq crashed, the system locked up for 3 hours, experts cite the reason to be an every growing complexity to the nature of the system, and I think this goes to show us, yet again, how insane we are to believe the stream of deception that individuals can compete within a fair market […]
Does Debt matter when finding a mate?
One of my favorite readers just told me that her son was concerned about a potential girlfriend since she has a lot of debt, and this sparked off an interesting exchange on Twitter between several people, all coming at this from slightly different angles, for the abbreviated response to this conundrum, the answer is ‘Maybe, […]
How I grew my Portfolio balance by 25.64% in just one week, without any risk
I use a portfolio tracking software from Personal Capital to keep an eye on movements within my portfolio, it sends me a weekly alert email to update me on the status of my investments, and last week I was very excited to receive the message to my Gmail account that my portfolio was up 25.64%. […]
Staples Cheap, and Free Stuff for the week – for your Pack for a Purpose Warchest
Below is a great list of school supplies that can be picked up from Staples, these can be paid for with your Ink Recycling Rewards or in good old fashioned Cash (I would recommend using the Ink Bold card for 5x earnings if you have one). I took the information from Fatwallet.com, a great site, […]
The Advent of the MOOC Online Degree
Online Degree’s have been around for some time, however, recently we have seen groundbreaking initiatives from some our nations most highly regarded schools such as Stanford and MIT as they leverage the technology platforms to create MOOC’s (massively open online courses) provided by third party companies such as Udacity, Coursera and edX. These companies run the […]
I’m Entitled to my own opinion
Entitlement has been on my mind for some time now, I found myself falling into the common trap of blaming others for their grandeous expectations and gearing up to berate them and their ignorant ways. However, yet again I find myself targeting not the common man when I write this, but the system, and its […]