Money and Finance
Another week has flown by and now it's time for another roundup. At least as of Friday's close the markets had shrugged off the sequester cuts. For now all the worry was much ado about nothing,but we'll see if a patch is made over the weekend and how the markets react to the outcome next week. I didn't think the sequester cuts would be that bad, although in the long run they're not going to make a dent in the massive amount of debt the federal government has. Now how the markets would react there was no telling. Here's some blog posts that caught my eye during the week.
Challenging Budget Exercise for a High School Class - iHeartBudgets had a guest post from Evolving Personal Finance and she had recently watched an episode of Dawson's Creek that inspired a great budgeting project for high school students. I'm not sure if we should follow the choice of programming, but the budgeting exercise is top notch. If only our education system would throw this into the curriculum to really prepare students for the real world.
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- Education Nation: Rural Arkansas Town Rethinks High School
Thanks to Matt for passing this along. It reminds me of something Mohnish Pabrai talked about at the Pabrai Funds Annual Meeting this past weekend. He mentioned that studies show that the brain is developing quickly between the ages of 12 and 19, and...
- Recent Buys: Part 2
I mentioned in my weekly roundup yesterday that I had 2 more purchases during the week. I've been really busy with work and getting other things done with the blog so I wasn't able to get this post up earlier; however, I do try and tweet about...
- Weekly Roundup - March 30, 2013
Where has the first 3 months of this year gone? Seems like just yesterday I was having to get used to writing 2013 instead of 2012 and now one quarter of the year is almost done. This past week was pretty good. Work went really smooth although I...
- Weekly Roundup - February 23, 2013
It's been a while since I've posted a roundup and I really need to get back into it. Here's some articles that caught my eye from this past week. A Primer on Federal Income and Investment Taxes - MyFIJourney has a great overview of the 2013...
- Weekly Roundup - October 13, 2012
This past week has flown by with me heading back to work. It also brought about 3 new purchases that will contribute an extra $170 in dividends before any future increases. You can check out my Recent Buy posts from this past week here, here and here....
Money and Finance
Weekly Roundup - March 2, 2013
Another week has flown by and now it's time for another roundup. At least as of Friday's close the markets had shrugged off the sequester cuts. For now all the worry was much ado about nothing,but we'll see if a patch is made over the weekend and how the markets react to the outcome next week. I didn't think the sequester cuts would be that bad, although in the long run they're not going to make a dent in the massive amount of debt the federal government has. Now how the markets would react there was no telling. Here's some blog posts that caught my eye during the week.
Challenging Budget Exercise for a High School Class - iHeartBudgets had a guest post from Evolving Personal Finance and she had recently watched an episode of Dawson's Creek that inspired a great budgeting project for high school students. I'm not sure if we should follow the choice of programming, but the budgeting exercise is top notch. If only our education system would throw this into the curriculum to really prepare students for the real world.
Read more »
- Education Nation: Rural Arkansas Town Rethinks High School
Thanks to Matt for passing this along. It reminds me of something Mohnish Pabrai talked about at the Pabrai Funds Annual Meeting this past weekend. He mentioned that studies show that the brain is developing quickly between the ages of 12 and 19, and...
- Recent Buys: Part 2
I mentioned in my weekly roundup yesterday that I had 2 more purchases during the week. I've been really busy with work and getting other things done with the blog so I wasn't able to get this post up earlier; however, I do try and tweet about...
- Weekly Roundup - March 30, 2013
Where has the first 3 months of this year gone? Seems like just yesterday I was having to get used to writing 2013 instead of 2012 and now one quarter of the year is almost done. This past week was pretty good. Work went really smooth although I...
- Weekly Roundup - February 23, 2013
It's been a while since I've posted a roundup and I really need to get back into it. Here's some articles that caught my eye from this past week. A Primer on Federal Income and Investment Taxes - MyFIJourney has a great overview of the 2013...
- Weekly Roundup - October 13, 2012
This past week has flown by with me heading back to work. It also brought about 3 new purchases that will contribute an extra $170 in dividends before any future increases. You can check out my Recent Buy posts from this past week here, here and here....