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investing start-up kit - Bogleheads Welcome to the Bogleheads® investing start-up kit! This kit is designed to help you begin or improve your investing journey. The Bogleheads investing principles are shown to the right and are more fully explained in Bogleheads Investment Philosophy. If you have questions regarding investing, just ask in the Bogleheads' forum. No question is too simple. Please refer to the following guides for asking investment planning questions; Are you ready to invest? Take a step back at look at the big picture. You need to save money to invest. Investing should only commence after you have saved a minimum of 6 months of living expenses (preferably more). Create an investment plan What is this investment used for? Avoid common behavioral pitfalls Investing is much more than working with numbers or reading a fund prospectus. As an example, if you select an asset allocation without taking into account your emotional capacity for risk, you’re unlikely to stay the course in a down market or market crash
Laura D'Andrea Tyson: Evidence vs. Ideology in the Medicare Debate Laura D’Andrea Tyson is a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and served as chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton. When formulating public policy, evidence should be accorded more weight than ideology, and facts should matter more than shibboleths. The Romney-Ryan plan for Medicare reform depends on assertions that are ideologically consistent. Perhaps that’s why the Romney campaign has been deliberately misrepresenting President Obama’s Medicare record. Mitt Romney characterizes the $716 billion of Medicare savings over the next 10 years, contained in the Affordable Care Act, as President Obama’s “raid” on the Medicare program to pay for his health care program. The reforms include both voluntary and mandatory changes in how providers deliver health care to promote better care coordination at lower cost, reward the quality and outcomes of services rather than their volume and reduce fraud and abuse. Now Mr.
Why Student Loans Suck… [Infographic] While I rarely repost “infographics” here (most I see are pretty lame), every once and a while one just comes along and blows my mind. In the past you’ve enjoyed ones on health care reform and the “too much credit” trend – today I hope you’ll take the time to dig into this beauty by College Scholarships.org: I love how this not only outlines the problem in a fun, easy-to-understand way – but also provides several ways for you to fight back. As most of you know, Sallie Mae is still an un-welcomed guest in our financial life. It’s stuff like this that gets me excited for the fast approaching day when we kick her to the curb once and for all. Xoxoxo, -Baker Enjoy reading this post? Get fresh Man Vs. $600 in groceries for $10? Yes. How? Extreme couponing. For example, Safeway, which also offers groceries online, accepts digital coupons and promo codes on orders, which are two essential ways to lower a bill. Safeway also features free shipping on first-time orders. Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition Meanwhile, some sites already factor in coupons from manufacturers ahead of time so shoppers don't need to hunt for discounts. For example, Alice.com — named after the maid from the TV show "The Brady Bunch" — directly applies coupons to the list price of items on its site. It's no secret that the Internet makes it easy to comparison shop, too. For example, Wheeler and her husband recently bought a new mattress and carefully selected a store that would meet and beat any competitor, including online prices. "After some research, we found a great online price on a mattress we wanted," Wheeler said. But knowing how to shop is just the first step. Save on shipping
News Corp.'s Chief Digital Officer to Step Down as Company Prepares to Split Phil McCarten/ReutersJonathan Miller News Corporation’s chief digital officer, Jonathan Miller, will step down, the company announced on Thursday, in the latest example of an executive departing since News Corporation said it would split the publishing business from the rest of the company. Mr. Miller will leave his post at the end of September but will continue as an outside adviser on digital matters through fall 2013, the company said. Previously the chairman and chief executive of AOL, Mr. Miller came to News Corporation in 2009 to help manage the company’s tech investments and steer its brands into the digital age. Initially, Mr. Other efforts, like developing YouTube channels and serving on the board of Hulu, a joint venture with News Corporation’s Fox Broadcasting, Disney’s ABC and Comcast’s NBCUniversal, have fared far better. In a statement, Mr. Mr. Mr.
Top 10 Most Expensive Cities to Live in 2010 [Infographic] | Home Loan Finder Like this Infographic? Embed this infographic in your website by copying and pasting the code below into your source code <a href=" target="_blank"><img src=" width="700" height="2937" alt="Top 10 Most Expensive Cities to Live in 2010" border="0"></a><br />Produced by <a href=" Loan Finder</a> Other infographics you might find fun While it is easy to complain about the cost of living in our own backyards, and lament the times when your dollars went further and your cents actually bought something, your home country may not even be in the top 10 cities that are the most expensive in which to live. New York City is used as the base line for the survey; all costs are compared against New York, and all currency movements are measured against the US dollar. Cost Of Living 1 – Luanda, Angola
Real-Life Extreme Couponing: How to Save Big Online A new show on the TLC network debuted last week, showing America that it's possible for shoppers to get $600 worth of groceries for less than $10 at checkout. "Extreme Couponing" – which airs at 9:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday nights – follows the lives each week of dedicated so-called "couponers" who spend countless hours cutting coupons, seeking deals and strategizing how to hunt the supermarket. By pairing manufacturer coupons from the Web and Sunday newspaper with items that are on sale at the supermarket, couponers can walk away from the grocery store after paying only mere cents for their items. (In some cases, items coupled with coupons can even be free). But some people like 27-year-old Joanie Demer — the co-founder of popular coupon tip blog TheKrazyCouponLady.com, who was featured on the show — take couponing so far that they even jump into dumpsters to collect a number of the estimated $57 billion worth of coupons Americans throw away each year. Tips on saving Where and when to shop
Close to Cape Cod Shore, Humpback Whales Are Far From Safe Then he dives again. Over and over. Touché’s feeding strategy, captured in June by an electronic tag attached to his back, is of keen interest to scientists tracking North Atlantic humpback whales off Cape Cod. “Every time we go out and put another tag on, we learn something else,” said Dave Wiley, research director of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary in Massachusetts, who returned to shore recently after plying its waters for two weeks with researchers from several institutions. For Dr. Wiley, the most striking insight is that each humpback has its own set of behaviors, often confounding efforts to generalize about the species. “We’ve got examples sometimes of hundreds of feeding events that are almost all identical for that particular whale but are different than the hundred feeding events that we have for a different whale,” he said. “It’s frustrating and complicated and fascinating all at the same time,” he said. “Our whole goal is to collect data to influence policy,” Dr.
Planwise - Free Online Personal Finance Decision Tool Fewer Uninsured People The Census Bureau reported on Wednesday that the number of people without health coverage fell to 48.6 million in 2011, or 15.7 percent of the population, down from 49.9 million, or 16.3 percent of the population, in 2010. Health experts attributed a big chunk of the drop to a provision in the health care reform law that allows children to remain on their parents’ policies until age 26. Some three million young adults took advantage of that provision, other surveys show. The bureau also reported that the percentage of people covered by private insurance stayed flat at 63.9 percent, the first time in a decade it has not fallen. In other good news, a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust showed that average premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance for family coverage rose 4 percent from last year and individual coverage rose 3 percent — well below the double-digit increases in the past decade.
Tony Ortega and Maura Johnston to Leave The Village Voice After five and a half years as editor of The Village Voice, Tony Ortega announced in a blog post that he would be stepping down to work on a book about Scientology. The music editor, Maura Johnston, took to Twitter to say she was leaving the newspaper as well. Mr. Ortega said that he would leave next week and that staff members were available to handle the transition. No successor has been named, but Mr. Ortega said Christine Brennan, executive managing editor of the newspaper’s parent company, Village Voice Media, was looking to hire in New York — a fact he said “should please all the writers out there.” That was a reference to the fact that Mr. Michael Lacey, executive editor of the newspaper chain, credited Mr. “Tony Ortega did a great job for us and managed a difficult transition in a miserable economy,” he wrote in an e-mail. Mr. Mr. “I’ve been an editor in chief of The Village Voice for five years, and this seemed like a good time to try something else,” he said. Ms. Ms.
To Stay Relevant in a Career, Workers Train Nonstop Daniel Rosenbaum for The New York Times Bill Moss, whose repair business in Virginia focuses on European vehicles, said technology had pushed garages to specialize. Peter DaSilva for The New York Times Kunal Mehta, a Ph.D. student in bioengineering at Stanford University, said his field was changing so rapidly that there was little consensus on necessary skills. To prepare, Mr. “You’re always reaching for something that’s kind of like unknown, because you don’t know what is really going to be the future,” Mr. But exhaustion may be a luxury that Mr. Going back to school for months or years is not realistic for many workers, who are often left to figure out for themselves what new skills will make them more valuable, or just keep them from obsolescence. Lynda Gratton, a professor of management practice at the London Business School, has coined a term for this necessity: “serial mastery.” Individuals have also shouldered a lot of responsibility for their own upgrades.
Casey B. Mulligan: The iPhone and Consumer Spending Casey B. Mulligan is an economics professor at the University of Chicago. That the introduction of iPhone 5 increases consumer spending is no triumph for Keynesian economics, but merely an advertisement for plans by the Bureau of Economic Analysis to improve national accounting. Suppose there were an island economy with 100 able-bodied adults, all of whom work as fisherman, each catching a fish a day. (In order to clarify concepts and measurement practices, I have deliberately kept this model economy simple, with no unemployment, liquidity traps and the like.) Now suppose that 10 of the fisherman decide to quit fishing to build, nurture and tend to an apple orchard. Time passes, and a bountiful 100-apple harvest occurs. Consider now the American economy, in which Apple has just released its iPhone 5, and some economists say they believe that the release itself will noticeably increase aggregate consumer spending.