Posts under ‘Finance’

How To Get Lower Rent

Apr 20th, 2011
by MAS.
9 comments

Why I Dismiss Predictions of Rising Rents

Apr 19th, 2011
by MAS.
8 comments

How To Destroy The Wall Street Banks

Apr 18th, 2011
by MAS.
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Why I Do Not Believe HyperInflation is Coming to America

Apr 8th, 2011
by MAS.
9 comments

The Age of Deleveraging

Mar 14th, 2011
by MAS.
2 comments

Could Inflation in America Get Argentina Bad?

Feb 19th, 2011
by MAS.
1 comment

2011 Financial Predictions

Jan 1st, 2011
by MAS.
9 comments

Reasons I’m Still Bearish

Dec 31st, 2010
by MAS.
1 comment

Reviewing My 2010 Financial Predicitions

Dec 29th, 2010
by MAS.
4 comments

My One and Only Post on Sports Betting

Nov 17th, 2010
by MAS.
3 comments

Save Money on Seattle Coffee With the Chinook Book

Oct 15th, 2010
by MAS.
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The College Debt Alternative

Sep 14th, 2010
by MAS.
6 comments

The College Debt Trap

Sep 13th, 2010
by MAS.
3 comments

Near Heart Attack

Aug 18th, 2010
by MAS.
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Tony Robbins on the Current Financial Situation

Aug 16th, 2010
by MAS.
8 comments

My 401k Advice to the Unemployed

Aug 10th, 2010
by MAS.
4 comments

Vindication

Jul 16th, 2010
by MAS.
9 comments

The Fitness Finance Analogy Updated

Jun 4th, 2010
by MAS.
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This Time Is Different – Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

May 24th, 2010
by MAS.
4 comments

Oil Prices – Here We Go Again

Apr 6th, 2010
by MAS.
3 comments

Roger Lowenstein Coming to Seattle

Mar 29th, 2010
by MAS.
1 comment

Before Racing Back to College To Pile On More Debt

Jan 15th, 2010
by MAS.
2 comments

My 2010 Financial Predictions

Jan 3rd, 2010
by MAS.
3 comments

Reviewing My 2009 Financial Predictions

Dec 31st, 2009
by MAS.
1 comment

I Don’t Know Karate, But I Know KA-RAZY!

Oct 12th, 2009
by MAS.
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Time For Another Stock Market Crash?

Sep 18th, 2009
by MAS.
4 comments

Freeing Up More Money For Coffee

Sep 8th, 2009
by MAS.
7 comments

Revisiting the Simplest Investing Rule

Aug 25th, 2009
by MAS.
4 comments

Guest Financial Predictions by Derek Wilson

Aug 25th, 2009
by MAS.
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Why America Wins

Jul 31st, 2009
by MAS.
20 comments

Secret Ways to Save Money With AT&T and Vonage

Jul 24th, 2009
by MAS.
2 comments

The Importance of College

Jul 20th, 2009
by MAS.
8 comments

The Millionaire Next Door

Jul 17th, 2009
by MAS.
1 comment

California Shrugged

Jul 12th, 2009
by MAS.
25 comments

Eye of the Hurricane

Jun 25th, 2009
by MAS.
5 comments

The Fat Tail

Apr 6th, 2009
by MAS.
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My Thoughts on the Bailouts and Stimulus Plan

Mar 26th, 2009
by MAS.
2 comments

My Reaction To What Bernanke Did Today

Mar 18th, 2009
by MAS.
4 comments

When Fitness and Finance Intersect

Mar 18th, 2009
by MAS.
1 comment

Not As Short As I Used To Be

Mar 10th, 2009
by MAS.
5 comments

Debt and Leverage

Mar 6th, 2009
by MAS.
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Making The Simplest Investing Rule Even More Simple

Mar 4th, 2009
by MAS.
12 comments

Santa Claus Rally – Hope You Got Out

Feb 27th, 2009
by MAS.
1 comment

Will The Housing Crisis Start a Civil War?

Feb 20th, 2009
by MAS.
7 comments

The Next Round of Real Estate Price Drops

Feb 17th, 2009
by MAS.
24 comments

Instead of Makin’ Me Better, You Keep Me Makin’ Me Ill

Feb 14th, 2009
by MAS.
2 comments

Mr. Microsoft vs Seattle Billy

Feb 6th, 2009
by MAS.
21 comments

An Update on Seattle Billy

Jan 31st, 2009
by MAS.
6 comments

Timing the Stock Market

Jan 28th, 2009
by MAS.
4 comments

I Just Woke Up From A Fuzzy Dream

Jan 22nd, 2009
by MAS.
1 comment

Sign of the Times – The Counter Offer

Jan 16th, 2009
by MAS.
3 comments

You Can’t Hyperinflate Wages in a Global Economy

Jan 12th, 2009
by MAS.
20 comments

Simple Math Says Get Out of the Stock Market

Jan 8th, 2009
by MAS.
4 comments

2009 Financial Predictions

Jan 3rd, 2009
by MAS.
44 comments

Jim Cramer, Me and One Week in July

Dec 31st, 2008
by MAS.
5 comments

Anatomy of a Good Trade

Dec 13th, 2008
by MAS.
2 comments

Anatomy of a Bad Trade

Dec 7th, 2008
by MAS.
7 comments

The Lack of Trust in the New World Economy

Dec 2nd, 2008
by MAS.
2 comments

The Softening Seattle Rental Market

Nov 30th, 2008
by MAS.
3 comments

Short Term Bear, Long Term Bull

Nov 26th, 2008
by MAS.
3 comments

Not Stocks and Not Real Estate Part 2

Nov 22nd, 2008
by MAS.
5 comments

Not Stocks and Not Real Estate Part 1

Nov 22nd, 2008
by MAS.
1 comment

He Bought At The Bottom

Nov 20th, 2008
by MAS.
10 comments

Oil Hits $55

Nov 12th, 2008
by MAS.
4 comments

You Hit It Once, Then Break Away Clean

Nov 6th, 2008
by MAS.
10 comments

Not a Certified Financial Planner

Nov 5th, 2008
by MAS.
6 comments

Financial Logic Fails

Oct 22nd, 2008
by MAS.
12 comments

Picking a New S&P 500 Target

Oct 15th, 2008
by MAS.
8 comments

Investing 101 – The 401K

Oct 11th, 2008
by MAS.
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Investing 101 – The Biggest Lesson

Oct 6th, 2008
by MAS.
1 comment

Investing 101 – Before You Invest

Oct 5th, 2008
by MAS.
3 comments

Walk Away and Taste the Pain, Come Again Some Other Day

Oct 1st, 2008
by MAS.
7 comments

Can I Have Another Piece of Chocolate Cake?

Sep 28th, 2008
by MAS.
11 comments

Trying to Understand George Soros

Sep 26th, 2008
by MAS.
2 comments

And Here Is What Happened When They Decided To Cut Loose

Sep 26th, 2008
by MAS.
8 comments

Watching Wall Street and Waiting

Sep 22nd, 2008
by MAS.
3 comments

As Soon As I Get My Head Round You

Sep 20th, 2008
by MAS.
10 comments

My Counter Party Is Over

Sep 17th, 2008
by MAS.
2 comments

Another Reason Real Estate Prices Will Drop Further

Sep 3rd, 2008
by MAS.
4 comments

Irrational on the Way Up, Rational on the Way Down?

Aug 24th, 2008
by MAS.
6 comments

Funny Finance Book

Aug 21st, 2008
by MAS.
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Financial Book Picks

Aug 12th, 2008
by MAS.
3 comments

Won The Lottery Revisited

Jul 31st, 2008
by MAS.
4 comments

Financial History Repeating Itself

Jul 30th, 2008
by MAS.
5 comments

Hope Your 401K is in Fixed Income

Jul 24th, 2008
by MAS.
1 comment

Don’t Cry For Me and My Diesel Engine

Jul 19th, 2008
by MAS.
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Hedging Financial Risk For First Time Homebuyers?

Jul 15th, 2008
by MAS.
13 comments

Shooting The Messenger

Jul 15th, 2008
by MAS.
1 comment

True Job Insurance Means Shorting Your Own Company Part 2

Jul 12th, 2008
by MAS.
5 comments

IndyMAC Is Gone, Who Warned Ya?

Jul 11th, 2008
by MAS.
4 comments

True Job Insurance Means Shorting Your Own Company

Jul 10th, 2008
by MAS.
4 comments

More Than You Know

Jul 6th, 2008
by MAS.
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IndyMAC – Dead Bank Walking?

Jul 2nd, 2008
by MAS.
2 comments

Buying Individual Stocks Doesn’t Math Out For Me

Jun 27th, 2008
by MAS.
12 comments

I Wouldn’t Bank There

Jun 18th, 2008
by MAS.
No comments yet

While America Aged

Jun 15th, 2008
by MAS.
4 comments

My Take on the Barbell Investment Strategy

Jun 9th, 2008
by MAS.
12 comments

Meet Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Jun 2nd, 2008
by MAS.
1 comment

Mr. Financial Planner – Go Home and Get Your Shine Box!

Apr 16th, 2008
by MAS.
4 comments

The Simplest Investing Rule

Apr 14th, 2008
by MAS.
1 comment

Secular Bear Market or Range Bound?

Apr 12th, 2008
by MAS.
3 comments

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Apr 7th, 2008
by MAS.
4 comments

Is MacroShares Ready For Primetime?

Apr 4th, 2008
by MAS.
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100 Million or 100 Billion?

Mar 28th, 2008
by MAS.
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Devil Take the Hindmost

Mar 27th, 2008
by MAS.
1 comment

The Financial Wisdom of Seattle Billy

Mar 27th, 2008
by MAS.
4 comments

Picking a Real Estate Bottom

Mar 24th, 2008
by MAS.
6 comments

Fooled By Randomness

Mar 23rd, 2008
by MAS.
3 comments

Bear Market Investing

Mar 20th, 2008
by MAS.
No comments yet

IndyMac I’m Never Coming Back

Mar 17th, 2008
by MAS.
1 comment

Ultra ETFs and Counterparty Risk

Mar 16th, 2008
by MAS.
15 comments

Investing in Stocks For the Long Term?

Mar 7th, 2008
by MAS.
1 comment

The Origins of the Crash

Feb 27th, 2008
by MAS.
1 comment

Just What I Said

Feb 16th, 2008
by MAS.
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Ignore My Financial Advice

Feb 9th, 2008
by MAS.
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Check Out My Financial Newsletter

Jan 16th, 2008
by MAS.
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Firing My Mutual Fund

Jan 8th, 2008
by MAS.
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My Drudge Report Oil Short Investment Tip

Jan 3rd, 2008
by MAS.
1 comment

The Black Swan

Dec 1st, 2007
by MAS.
2 comments

Not Building Equity?

Nov 27th, 2007
by MAS.
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When Genius Failed

Nov 22nd, 2007
by MAS.
2 comments

The Wolf of Wall Street

Nov 22nd, 2007
by MAS.
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Getting Rich on Social Security

Oct 15th, 2007
by MAS.
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Home Prices A Year Later – Who Was Right?

Sep 25th, 2007
by MAS.
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50 Days Without TV

Sep 19th, 2007
by MAS.
1 comment

R-Score of 126

Aug 25th, 2007
by MAS.
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Ultra Shorting Real Estate

Aug 3rd, 2007
by MAS.
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Glad I Sold My House Already Part 2

Jun 4th, 2007
by MAS.
1 comment

Retirement Age or Retirement Place?

May 15th, 2007
by MAS.
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Real Estate Cassandra

Apr 15th, 2007
by MAS.
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Too Many Choices – The Science of Influence

Mar 25th, 2007
by MAS.
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Betting Against The Market

Mar 13th, 2007
by MAS.
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Renters Lose Money – 1 Year Later

Mar 8th, 2007
by MAS.
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When Buying or Renting Downtown Consider

Mar 1st, 2007
by MAS.
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Market Tanks – MAS Wins!

Feb 27th, 2007
by MAS.
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Does My Last Employer Miss Me?

Jan 24th, 2007
by MAS.
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Inverse Investing Made Easy

Dec 2nd, 2006
by MAS.
2 comments

Glad My House Sold Already

Sep 16th, 2006
by MAS.
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Ameritrade’s MMDA (Money Market) Disappoints

Sep 14th, 2006
by MAS.
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Funny Comment on The Big Picture

Aug 8th, 2006
by MAS.
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Investor Psychology – Market Sentiment

Aug 6th, 2006
by MAS.
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Summer (of George) Reading

Aug 2nd, 2006
by MAS.
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My Advice on Selling Your House

May 15th, 2006
by MAS.
1 comment

Socially Irresponsible Investing

May 10th, 2006
by MAS.
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High Gas Prices are Great

Apr 25th, 2006
by MAS.
1 comment

For Sale By Owner – Don’t Do It

Apr 18th, 2006
by MAS.
1 comment

Renters Lose Money?

Mar 30th, 2006
by MAS.
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Buy Low, Sell High

Mar 12th, 2006
by MAS.
1 comment

Won the Lottery

Mar 9th, 2006
by MAS.
2 comments

The Savings Rate is Nonsense

Jan 30th, 2006
by MAS.
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Ameritrade Final Score for 2005: + 11.47%

Dec 30th, 2005
by MAS.
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Time Killer of the Year Award

Dec 16th, 2005
by MAS.
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Cold Weather Makes Me Happy

Dec 13th, 2005
by MAS.
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