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How Much Do You Really Know About Stock Market Indexes?

Yardley Wealth Management

We pulled together some information and interesting facts about some of the major indexes that can help you put the numbers you hear in context. In time, the DJIA itself would evolve, and the concept of stock indexes would grow in number, size, and importance. It’s not the number of points that matters—it’s the percentage change.

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Twenty Years Of Blogging! Part 1

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Back in 2004, there were very few bloggers, it was a new thing. My blog was the Forbes blog of the year for 2004 in less than three full months of blogging which should tell you how thin it was back then. The way that number went up though, I don't know if it was a real number or not. I mentioned Seeking Alpha above.

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The Importance Of Diversifying Your Diversifiers

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Mutiny makes a point that I've been writing about and have embedded into my process since 2004. There are expectations embedded in these numbers. They are not intended to constitute legal, tax, securities or investment advice or a recommended course of action in any given situation. There's all sorts of information here.

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How And Why To Give Away Your Money In 2024

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

While no significant decreases in charitable giving were found, CCS did find that “in more recent presidential election years, it appears that political giving is making up an increasingly larger percentage of all giving during the months surrounding the election, hovering around 12% in the fall of 2016 compared to around 8% in the fall of 2004.”

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Transcript: Ramit Sethi

The Big Picture

So, you start the blog in 2004, more or less. And they do that for 35 years tweaking numbers I go you won, you won the game. Number one, everybody has credit cards, everybody misunderstands how to use them, and there are actually some secret perks that people have no idea about. SETHI: Yes, number one is eating out or dining.

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Transcript: Brad Gerstner

The Big Picture

00:17:50 You wanna know why Dara reported for Uber that again, their number of employees was down quarter of over quarter. It’s 10 blue links, but it’s an infinite number of blue links. So remember data and data infrastructure, that is the number one primitive to ai. Sales centers are, are more productive.

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The Margin Loan: How to Make a $400,000 Impulse Purchase

Mr. Money Mustache

The problem: I didn’t have anywhere near $400,000 sitting in my checking account, and I did not want to sell a bunch of shares and trigger capital gains taxes (which in my case would be at least $60,000), just for this short term project. This avoids triggering unnecessary capital gains taxes. I’m a good friend, but not that good.