In my most recent post, I updated my investment account balances as of January 31, 2021. In this post, I’m going to take a crack at estimating my total net worth.
Continue reading “State of the Stash – Total Net Worth 2020”State of the Stash – January 2021
It is time for my monthly personal finance and investing journal update. Let us examine the State of my Stash…
Continue reading “State of the Stash – January 2021”State of the Stash – December 2020
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”Fun Fund Update: Q4 2020
This is the end of quarter and end of 2020 update to my active stock picking account investing journal.
This post is about my “Fun Fund.” I am going to discuss the performance of this actively managed investment account in the recently ended fourth quarter and calendar year 2020 and share some thoughts on a few positions.
As a reminder, most of the prior posts about this account (which is really just a small Roth IRA that I am messing around with) are located on this page.
Continue reading “Fun Fund Update: Q4 2020”State of the Stash – November
Hello people! It has been a minute. If you missed my mediocre content, I’m sorry. I’ve been buried with work (and 2020). But I’m back baby (just like value stonks and Bitcoin)! Let’s go ahead and crack the seal, on the monthly update to my personal finance and investing journal.
Continue reading “State of the Stash – November”Fun Fund: Q3 2020 Update
This post is about the performance of my “Fun Fund.” I am going to discuss the performance of this actively managed investment account in the recently ended third quarter of 2020 and share some thoughts on a few positions.
As a reminder, most of the prior posts about this account (which is really just a small Roth IRA that I am messing around with) are located on this page.
Continue reading “Fun Fund: Q3 2020 Update”State of the Stash – September
It is time for another update to my monthly personal finance journal. The stock market pulled back in September. My investment portfolio went down a bit less than the stock market indexes (Mission Accomplished!) and my balances continued to modestly increase.
Continue reading “State of the Stash – September”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.
Read Along“A Single Family Home is a Great Investment”
This will be a short personal finance post. There is an odd series of claims made in the ongoing debate about the merit of home ownership in the personal finance community. Some very famous financial personalities/authors have said rather controversial things about buying a home. Among these takes are: “your house is not an asset,” “your house is a liability,” “renting will make you rich,” and “all debt is evil.”
A lot of these statements can probably be partially excused as attempts to have a “hot take” to shock readers into undertaking a critical examination of the conventional wisdom that owning a home, rather than renting, is a no brainer or “the best way to build wealth.” Similarly, the slogans in favor of buying homes are also probably attempts to shock people into the (huge) action of buying a home. So what is the right answer?
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