I learned a lot reading the applications our new InvestorGeek hopefuls have been sending in. For example... My perspective on investing will change when I hit my 30s: > While I don’t think that saving is bad, I just think that there are better ways to get to your financial goals. And with all...

This article Orginally appeared on ThinkingAboutMoney.com An ARM can be a huge money saver, or a time bomb. Unfortunately, there are a lot of time bombs out there. In my previous posting, I focused on interest only mortgages and a couple of readers pointed out the risks of these mortgages - well...

The size of virtual worlds like Second Life and World of Warcraft (Wow) are making them more and more the target of entrepreneurs and investors. The stats are hard to calculate, but each world has about 4 million "inhabitants" and growing1. Here is a quick round up of some of the business going...

I have been a student of the stock market since my father and great uncle Andy sat me down in 1974 and started teaching me the beauty of investing in Exxon. This was during the oil embargo and my father’s restaurant “The Highland Diner” was situated right next to a gas station. I saw first hand the...

Is it possible to predict the quarterly earnings for a business, or a giant multi-billion dollar conglomerate accurately down to a single/narrow cent-per-share figure? A large number of investment analysts out there sure think so! After all, who wants to be the sucker who can only give you a broad...

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I've thrown together a few tools you guys can use to keep tabs on us. Subscribing to the InvestorGeeks feed is the first way, but we also do a lot of writing outside of the site. At Rollyo.com, you can use our custom-configured InvestorGeeks\_Authors search engine which will search through a list...

From time to time I find things on the web that pique my interest. And from time to time I'll share those items with you. So here goes. NPR has some Financial Advice for Twenty-Somethings. The Baltimore Sun has an article describing what those with interest-only loans set to reset in the coming...

On Monday, I wrote about using Google Trends as a resource for investing ideas. I took a look at three restaurant businesses which, while they were on my mind at the time, probably weren't the best candidates for this kind of research. Below, I'll take a look at three Google Trends charts and...

(This article orginally appeared on ThinkingAboutMoney on July 5th, 2006.) One of my basic assumptions with regards to planning for the future (whether it is financial planning, or career planning, or other) is that we are in a period of disruptive change (which I’ve been calling the “Information...