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I though this would be a fun one to throw around. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke's net worth up sharply last year, his largest holding appears to be a VA. Bernanke's Portfolio Rebounded in '09 - WSJ.com

My wife and I were out of town for a couple days over the long weekend. Like we usually do we took our dog to one of the local doggie daycare / boarding facilities which our dog usually loves. Even though it's more expensive than a normal boarding facility, we feel better because the dogs are...

One of the joys of living in the midwest is that I get to have a nice basement which I can spend time and energy to keep it from flooding. Now that it's thunderstorm season here and I've taken care of some other projects I figure it's time to tackle the sump pump backup issue. I already...

I know we spend a lot of time discussing people with high incomes who get into financial trouble, but this one shocked me. Countrywide is forcing a foreclosure on the house of Ed McMahon. Looks like he's about $600K behind on his payments and they say he also has an equity line out too...

OK, so we're well into this years home improvements and the current project is a total HVAC redo. I've got one quote (for our 2 story 2600Sq Ft house) from a Trane dealer from the 93% AFUE high end furnace, A/C and coil for a mind blowing $10K. To which my wife and I just stared at each other...

Ok, I have another questions for our forum members with a little more life experience than I. Last year my wife and I purchased a nice 4 bedroom 2.5 bedroom colonial in a great area, all should be perfect right? Well, it turned out that in the 39 years since this house was completed a lot of...

People are actually choosing to keeping their credit cards current instead of making their house payments. Further signs that this isn't going to end well for a lot of people. Debt-Laden Homeowners Save Plastic First: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

I know we have some other dog lovers here, I don't know if we have a vet too. I have a 9 month old Golden Retriever who is the sweetest dog I've ever know. She's been vomiting since Friday night. We took her to the ER on Sunday where they gave her X-rays, blood tests, IV fluids, and stomach...

Forget Al Gore, a real American hero is finally being honored. http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/...al_moh_071011w/ Fallen SEAL to receive Medal of Honor By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer Posted : Friday Oct 12, 2007 11:26:13 EDT SAN DIEGO — Two years after his death in a...

Yeah, he's the guy who last night thought it would be a good idea to throw the ball right down the middle of the line into the hands of the greatest linebacker pro football has seen in a generation on his own 10 yard line. What he should have done was fall on the ball or throw it away. John...

This forum has been a huge help to me as I have transformed myself from a happy and careless condo dweller into a soon to be broke owner of a 40 year old [-]nightmare[/-]home I have put off replacing my garage door, but the 1970's styling along with the rotting parts is really getting to my...

Well, what a fun weekend this has been. Chicago got socked last week with a massive thunderstorm which knocked out power for a couple days. My wife and I were lucky in that the backup on the sump pump kept working as long as it kept raining. Many others in my area including some relatives...

Ok, so I saw this story in the WSJ today http://blogs.wsj.com/juggle/2007/05/01/the-luxury-of-the-take-out-lunch/trackback/ which begs me to ask the question whether folks here bring their lunches to work or buy it. I'd like to think that I could bring my lunch every day, but sometimes just...

I know we have a lot of experienced home improvement people here so I thought I would give this a try. We have a 13 X 19 family room in our new home that was covered in horrible wood paneling. I ripped it down and put up new drywall. Now, my friend who is a carpenter has a sick wife and isn't...

Now that I have a house in suburbia and summer is near I need to make a choice. Do I mow my own lawn (1/3 acre lot) or hire somebody to do it? I would probably be the only person in the entire town who cuts their own grass, but I don't care. Lawn mower (Honda) would cost me about $400 (with my...

OK folks, got a call from a headhunter last week. I'm not leaving my job, but I did talk long enough to get the details of the position she is trying to fill. Portfolio Manager - Private client group of large regional banking - investment firm seeks portfolio manager. Will oversee approx $400M...

I guess for some people if would have been worth paying for financial advice. On the other hand, as the saying goes, you can't fix stupid http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/hard-luck-lottery-winner-[...] LINK shortened - BMJ

Intersting article from professor Moshe Milevsky about the currect state of variable annuities sold with living benefits. I have always though that the these companies might be selling these living benefits much too cheaply considering what it would cost to do the same thing using exchange...

file this under "be careful what you wish for" I've been complaining here for 6 months that I was trying to sell my condo and buy a house. Well, last week my dream came true and my condo sold. What is ever weirder is that the buyer of my condo is the seller of the house we bought. He was so...

I've been out of the photo loop for a while, and I'm looking to get back into things and buy a DSLR I've been a doing a lot of research online and I'm trying to decide between the new Nikon D80 (which goes on sale in Oct) and the Canon 30D I know the body is an important decision because I...

Ok, this is going to sound a little strange to a lot of you. I know because my friends tell me I f'ing crazy. I've never in my working career worked at a large company. (being a stockboy for Walgreens when I was 14 doesn't count) Most of my friends went to work for mega corps when they...

Well, it looks like investors fascination with emerging markets might be ending quickly I'm watching EEM on my terminal right now and EEM is down 5.6% It's pretty broad based too, brazil down 5%, Taiwan down almost 7% FTSE China down 6.1% So what do people here think? Has the bubble on EM burst?

Well, we knew it was coming soon, but it is here Barclays has finally dropped their commodity Exchange Traded Notes (ETN) they have both a GSCI and AIG-DJIA version http://www.ipathetn.com/dj_aig_overview.jsp?c=DCA01&ch=z symbols are DJP and GSP ER is 75bps

Oh man, what to do?????? ??? ??? ??? My best friend just annouced that he's getting married this August. I figured hey great news, he really needs to settle down. Then he announces that the wedding is going to be at the Ritz Carlton in Grand Cayman. :o Rooms (all inclusive) will be $450 a...

OMG I'm going to scream!!!!! >:( I'm a portfolio manager for a medium size investment advisory firm in Chicago. Usually I'm a behind the scenes guy (I'm kind of like Dilbert in that they don't want me in front of the clients too much because I tend to tell the truth) So, by force I was taken...