You’ve heard all the reasons that people want to stop renting. “I don’t want to waste my money.” Heck, you may have even said them yourself. Many of my friends are reaching that point in their lives where they’re considering buying a home. However it’s unfortunate that so many choose to buy over...

As I'm sure you've all heard by now. Vonage has decided to offer some of their customers a shot at getting in on their IPO action. I happen to be one of those elligible customers, but should I buy in? To be honest, when I first heard about the IPO and the fact that I would be able to pick up a few...

Earlier today I sold my 100 shares of Microsoft (MSFT) at $23. Truth be told, I should have unloaded the shares a couple of weeks ago. Overall though, I'm still happy with how I've been trading this and looking forward to buying back in when goes on the upswing. Below is a brief history of my...

Greetings! We're very happy to present Carnival of Investing #22! We had an excellent 22 submissions this week, and thank you all for your timely submissions. Without further ado, here are our submittor's articles (by date submitted). | | | | --- | --- | | Contributor | Submission | | Stock...

By far the most useful single page in Jim Cramer’s Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World (review, Amazon) is the “Cyclical Investing and Trading” chart on page 115. Visually the chart looks like a W. It follows the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate through an economic cycle. The...

Tools are designed to help their users do their tasks more efficiently and crunching numbers is no exception. I've been humming along with Excel and my trusty scientific calculator just fine, but as I'm getting more involved with calculations such as discounting I've decided it may be worth the...

I was doing some reading, and came across some great articles on Net Operating Income. NOI is an important gauge of a company's ability to generate profit from its core business. While it's only one piece of the puzzle when analyzing companies, understanding it can help you compare two firms who...

Today I got an offer for a new Visa credit card. Now, most credit cards offer you incentives for signing up, a low introductory APR, low interest rate balance transfers, gift cards, and the like. But this offer was different, by signing up for this card. I could get a free Dell laptop. Needless to...

We're very excited because once again we'll be hosting this Monday's Carnival of Investing. If you'd like to submit your article for the carnival please use one of the following methods: > *Submit detailed information to carnivals {at} investorgeeks \ com > Submit with Blog Carnival.** (we will...

FatPitchFinancials is hosting the 21st Carnival of Investing this week, and Blueprint for Financial Prosperity is hosting the 47th Carnival of Personal Finance. We're sorry that we didn't submit anything this week (especially because we missed a chance to get onto Jim's awesome personal finance...