Sometimes you look at a stock like Netflix when it was trading at $300+ and think "Here is a great company in a market with super growth, but how can I justify the price?" Well, it turns out you don't have to justify the price because the market is beating the shit out of the stock. It's trading...

With mortgage rates dropping like a brick, it's becoming a no-brainer for us to refinance our home loan. Even though we just got a 30-year loan 2 years ago at 5.875%, we can get 30-year loans now for around 4.5% or lower. You might be in a similar situation. Rule of Thumb The rule of thumb I...

This is happening to me, with one of my stocks right now: RCRC. A few months ago, I bought about 50 shares of RC2 Corporation (RCRC), a maker of die-cast  and wooden toys, at $20. My wife and I were looking for an investment idea based on the toys and media we're buying for our 2-year-old son. What...

Editor's Note: The following is a guest post by J. Tyler Matuella. J. Tyler Matuella is the Publishing Manager at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. He also is the author of "Unsustainability in Today's Sustainable Development" published in Development and Cooperation Magazine, Verge...

A couple months ago I opened a position in Activision Blizzard (ATVI). Blizzard is the Pixar of the gaming industry. All of their games are blockbusters. The most notable title World of Warcraft collects $15/month from their millions and millions of players. I got interested in the stock after...

These folks emailed us and they have some decent finance calculators on their site: Ultimate Calculators I found the loan application one particularly interesting... haven't seen that one before. Cheers!

I said previously that I would maintain a wiki and blog at the same time. That way with the wiki you get a good overall view of things, and the blog are thoughts from the moment. Well… That did not work out so well. My blog went downhill, and so did my wiki. I got nowhere! Then I decided to look...

[](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/google)I still own a few shares of GOOG. It's felt overpriced recently, but I'm holding onto a minimal amount at all times and trying to add more over time. So I'm hoping the price drops a bunch so I can pick up more cheaply. Do a search here for GOOG for my...

At the beginning of May I said that the Greek demonstrations would drop off dramatically. Of course nobody listened… What has happened? Oh yeah the Greek demonstrations have dropped off dramatically. So why did this happen? It is because the English speaking media does not understand mainland...

Wow sell sell sell…  Why? Because Germany introduced a ban on naked short selling? > Germany will ban so-called naked short-selling from midnight, a lawmaker with the ruling Christian Democratic Union told Dow Jones Newswires. He added that Chancellor Angela Merkel will announce the plan in her...