This has been a busy week so far. I started classes which I am taking twice a week after work, and there is quite a bit of homework and study attached. I really don’t remember how I used to mix work and school in the past!
Here are my posts over the past week:
- Learn a New Language: Five Different Strategies
- Three Reasons Why You Should Learn a New Language
- The Primal Blueprint 30 Day Challenge
- Is It Worth It to Have an Emergency Fund, or Should I Pay off My Mortgage Instead?
- The Rising Chinese
I’ve decided to try a new format for my weekly roundup. After a discussion on Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance about link posts, I will split things up into my favorite weekly reads (limited to 10 max!), mentions for those who linked to me, and a video of the week if there is one to share.
Weekly Reading
- Beating the Index: China Bluntly Confirms my Oil Investment Thesis
- The world is going to have to get used to a rising China that refuses to live in third world squalor while the rest of us consume like gluttons.
- Everyday Tips and Thoughts: How Does The Government Decide Who To Bail Out?
- How do they decide to bailout, and with whose money?
- Financial Samurai: Are The Poor Bringing The Poor & Middle Class Down With Them?
- What happens when you get more government than you bargained for?
- Money Smarts Blog: Buying Stocks In A Down Market
- What do you think about buying stocks in a down market?
- Hope to Prosper: How to Pick a Mutual Fund – Fees
- Ever wanted to learn more about the various kinds of fees encountered with mutual funds? Learn all about it here.
- Andrew Hallam: You want to be a good investor? Learn to ignore people
- Andrew shares his own stories on how sometimes one needs to part ways with the crowd.
- Frugal Zeitgeist: Retirement Myths and Realities
- Forest gives his own thoughts on retirement planning.
- Saving Money Today: This Could Be My Last Blog Post Ever
- Is it really Saving Money Today’s last post? Check it out.
- Ultimate Money Blog: Save the Earth- Don’t Have Kids
- More kids… yes or no?
- My Own Advisor: Oops!…They did it again – but are you surprised?
- Finally, the Bank of Canada raised interest rates yet again!
… and please check out the following articles from those that featured Invest It Wisely this week; thanks for the mentions!
- Beating the Index: How to Invest a Lump Sum of Money
- Everyday Tips and Thoughts: 10 Tips For Buying A New Home
- Buy Like Buffett: 3 Sectors That Would Benefit From Another Stimulus Bill
- Financial Highway: Canada’s Mortgage Market: Is it Safe?
- Wealth Informatics: How much do I need for retirement – My Retirement Number
- My Dollar Plan: Are Municipal Bonds the Next Bubble?
- In Search of Salt: The Carry Trade and Exchange Rates
- Personal Dividends: What You Need to Qualify for a Home Mortgage Loan
- Watson Inc: 7 Surprising Facts About Millionaires
- Faithful With A Few: How to Cut Your Printing Costs
- Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance: A Sneak Peak; Inside Barbara Friedberg’s Personal Portfolio-Part 1
- Budgeting In the Fun Stuff: I’ve Got the Time – How do I Get the Money?
- Financially Poor: Friday Night Likes
Please let me know if I forgot to mention you!
Video of the week
Have a great weekend, everyone.
Hey Kevin, thanks for the mention!
Per your suggestion, I just installed Conditional Captcha. Hopefully that will keep your comments from getting the spam treatment. Thought if I understand the settings they’ll still have to be manually approved.
Yes Kevin, I have been trying to scale back the number of “links” in my weekly “link post” as well. It is a delicate balance for sure!
Also, thanks for the link!!!!
Hey Kevin, as part of that same disscussion, I also plan to reduce the amount of links in my roundup to 10. I think it will be easier for my readers to follow and to support those that I link to.
Thanks for including my article on printing costs!
@ Mike, I also installed Conditional Captcha – it’s working well so far. Thanks for the suggestion, Kevin!
Thanks for the mention, Kevin. I appreciate it.
Where’s that photo from, by the way?
Thanks for the mention Kevin!
Thanks for the mention Kevin, have a great weekend!
Mark
Hi Kevin – Thanks for the mention, TWICE! And good luck. I love speaking 2 languages, but the learning process is tough! Good luck, it’s worth it!
Kevin,
Thanks a million for linking to my post.
Bret
Thanks very much for the link as always. I really don’t link out enough but I am hoping to try and start integrating a weekly link roundup. I need to plan it week long and make a file, it can be written as I go along I guess and hopefully can add commentary to each link…. You have been having some great thought provoking posts recently.
@Mike
Yep, the conditional captcha seperates the pass/failed into two folders depending on settings.
@Roshawn, @Khaleef
10 might be a good number to go for! There are always so many articles I want to include though, so it’s tough…
@Myke
You’re welcome! I believe it’s from near the Adirondacks.
@BeatingTheIndex, @Financial Cents
You’re welcome!
@Barb Friedberg
Cool, what do you speak as your second language! Agreed about the learning process!
@Bret
You’re welcome, keep up the good posts!
@Forest
I like the way you’ve been linking out to Yakeziers as part of the post body lately; keep doing that! 🙂
Thanks so much for the mention! Have a great week!
I hear you on school and work.. AND website… AND social life… AND sports… I seriously need an additional 10 hours in the day…
I just started school too, and already my blog has suffered…:(
@Budgeting in the Fun Stuff
Thanks, you too 🙂
@myfinancialobjectives
It’s tough. On the other hand, the increased structure & pressure allows me to make better use of my time… well, at least so far. We’ll see if it really gets too much later on. So far it’s at least an additional 15 hours a week or so for class + homework + study!