State of the Stash – March

Oooof! Time to take my medicine and update my investment balances. Click here to behold the raging chemical fire that my dirty financial laundry has become (just kidding it’s not THAT bad).

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State of the Stash – February

Hold my corona! It is time for the airing of my personal financial laundry. Let’s see what the corona virus and related market action has done to my portfolio.

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State of the Stash – December 2019

Happy New Year! It is time for my personal finance journal update. I am just going to update savings/invested assets in this post and will work on another post updating total net worth and doing an annual review over the next several days. It takes a little bit longer to estimate my total net worth as I’ve got some real estate and deferred compensation to value.

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State of the Stash – October

It is time for my monthly personal finance journal update. October was pretty exciting. I increased my savings over the last month due to a bit of a small income windfall. I also had some help from Mr. Market. I am getting close to a pretty big milestone.

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A Curious New Pod

A week screamed by and I did not get to post.  If you were bothered by this…great!  Also, I apologize.  I have a young kid, a career, and a dog (two, actually) that is literally hitting my leg with his stuffed chicken toy, insisting that I play with him, as I type this.  In between diapers and toy tosses, however, I was able to get through some pods.  Continue reading “A Curious New Pod”

Bed, Bath & an Abomination?

Bed, Bath & Beyond (“BBBY”) reported earnings on Thursday this past week.  While they “beat consensus estimates” the stock was down around 20% on the day.  More interesting to me is that retail REITs were down around 2% on the day based on the BBBY news.  I am going to take a quick look at BBBY the earnings report (and conference call).  Perhaps more interestingly, we will look at which of the landlords we previously examined has the most BBBY exposure. Continue reading “Bed, Bath & an Abomination?”