It is time for my personal finance and investing journal update. Let’s update the State of my Stash…
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State of the Stash – February 2021
It is time for my monthly personal finance and investing journal update. Let us examine the State of my Stash…
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It is time for my monthly personal finance and investing journal update. Let us examine the State of my Stash…
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At long last, 2020 is over! Dr. Fauci says we could potentially be looking at a somewhat normal life by the fall. (meh) In the meantime, we have my monthly updates to get us through.
It is time for my monthly savings and investing journal update. Let us examine the State of my Stash…
Continue reading “State of the Stash – December 2020”Paying in Cash? Who Does That?
In the time of covid-19, paying in cash definitely seems like an anachronism. This is an investing post, however, and I’m not writing about buying items with paper money. Rather, I’m thinking about companies that do not pay their execs and boards by issuing stock.
This is probably even more rare than cash payments during covid. It could also be a telling signal about the culture of a company and its people.
ContinueState of the Stash – August
It is time for another update to my monthly personal finance journal. The stock market continued to rally strongly in August. While my portfolio did not keep up with the stock market, my balances continued (modestly) to increase.
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Is it too late to write down (type up?) some of my observations from the Berkshire annual meeting? It has only been about a week, but it seems like it has been analyzed to death (probably because of the lack of other usual distractions). Well I have a kid and real job, so I am just now getting to put together a (short) post on some of my observations, including the fact that Buffett pretty much laid out the Berkshire succession plan (for now) in about as much detail as I can recall.
Continue reading “Greg is Able”State of the Stash – April
Time for the monthly update to my savings/investment balances. Things bounced back a bit this month, as one might expect in the strongest monthly rally since ~1987.
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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).
Continue reading “State of the Stash – March”Buying the BBB and a New Toy for Me
Wow, it feels like a lot has happened in the two weeks since my last post. The markets have sold off almost another (20%) after the ~(8%) decline in February. In this post I will briefly chronicle how I am thinking about reacting to the corona pandemic and the impact it is having on financial markets and the economy. I also found a new fantastic investing resource that I wanted to share, so you will have the chance to use it during this period of challenge (and opportunity).
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