Category: Miscellaneous

  • Blogging Idol Begins!

    Here’s some awesome news and something I am excited to be a part of.  Daily Blog Tips has just kicked off the very first Blogging Idol competition.  Blogging Idol is a competition between (as of last count) 96 bloggers to see who can gain the most subscribers between today and the end of July.  I’m…

  • Weekend Reading: June 28th

    There’s been some great reading online this past week.  A lot of the links that I’m posting this week are related to simple ways to save money, which should come in handy with the quickly increasing cost of living that we’re experiencing here in the U.S. David at Moneyning posted some fantastic advice on how…

  • Weekend Reading: June 21st

    Buenos Noches everyone!  It’s my last night in Mexico, so you can fully expect some updates about what I’ve learned and experienced while here… look for that sometime next week.  In the meantime here’s some links to what I’ve been reading this week. David from moneyning wrote a fantastic post about practicing patience when it…

  • Revitalize Economy? Spend Says Obama

    I was reading the financial news today at CNN Money when I ran across an article highlighting presidential candidate Barack Obama’s plan for revitalizing the shrinking U.S. economy.  He says that he wants to spend billions of dollars on education, infrastructure, health and energy systems.  Specifically (and this is to improve America’s competitiveness according to…

  • Weekend Reading: June 14th

    Welcome to the first edition of Weekend Reading. A lot of blogs out there do this and I think it’s a fantastic idea. Most of the following links are from my blogroll, so I’d definitely recommend your taking the time to go through the blogs I link to occasionally. There’s some great information out there.…

  • I’m Going to Mexico

    I’ll be taking off tomorrow morning from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on my way to Monterrey, MX where I will be doing a very short study abroad session at Tecnologico de Monterrey (the number one business school in all of Latin America). I’ll be gone from June 7th until June 22nd and during the…

  • Regulation D Is Outdated

    I understand the purpose of a savings account completely: they are to be used to put money into and to keep it there.  However it would be an insane idea to think that one would not have the ability to access that money with any level of ease.  The Federal Reserve however seems to think…