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Bookkeeping: Covering Symantec (SYMC) Short

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This morning's gap up triggered my stop loss in Symantec (SYMC).  This name actually remained quite weak considering the huge move Wednesday and follow through day yesterday but finally it triggered a 3% threshold and I was out at $14.12.


With that I am mostly out of the short book other than some piddling index exposure.

No position

 
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Mapping Out Our Financial Life

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The other night I spent some time streamlining our banking system. I’ve more or less settled on three core online savings accounts: ING Direct, Ally Bank, and Discover Bank to go along with our local bank accounts.

 
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Daily Links: Holiday Weekend Edition

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Labor Day weekend begins tomorrow afternoon in the U.S. It’s the traditional end-of-summer holiday, and most folks will get Monday off as a paid holiday. My own vacation is going to be a bit different: I’m going to take tomorrow off instead. This will be the last post until Sunday evening.

 
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The Four CFO Rules

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The following is an excerpt from Your Life & Your Money In the book the author says every family needs a chief financial officer (CFO), and he gives these four rules for that person.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.—THEODORE ROOSEVELT

 
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Stop Learning and Start Earning

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It’s time to stop learning and start earning.

I’m not kidding. You really should stop studying and just get out there. Once I did, I became a lot more successful.

I can best explain the true cost of learning when I tell you about launching my blog.

Two years ago, I didn’t know what a blog was.

A friend convinced me to launch one in order to market a book I was writing, so I decided to “look into it.”

The more I looked into blogging, the less I understood it. As a result, I went deeper.

 
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Reader Mailbag: Dream House

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What’s inside? Here are the questions answered in today’s reader mailbag, boiled down to five word summaries. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question.
1. 401(k) profit sharing
2. Online job application tips
3. Illness and challenges
4. College freshman advice
5. Mortgage decisions
6. Annuities for retirement?
7. Refinancing questions

 
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Money To-Do Calendar: September

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The personal finance book Grow Your Money!: 101 Easy Tips to Plan, Save, and Invest ends with a list of what financial steps we should take each month. They list the August steps as follows:

  • Review your insurance coverage to make sure no changes need to be made.
  • Do an employee benefits checkup.

Here's what I do on these:

 
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Hotel Alternatives: Save Money When Traveling

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This is a guest post from Matthew Kepnes of Nomadic Matt’s Travel Site. If you like what you see here, please consider subscribing to his RSS feed.

When we go on vacation, we book a hotel. We are sort of taught that’s where you stay. By instinct we book a hotel. We go online, shake our head at the high price, and book it anyways, wishing there was a better way.

 
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Tuesday screencast: Microsoft softness

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By many measures Microsoft (MSFT) stock is cheap.  The question for today’s screencast is whether it is cheap for a reason?  The stock has become a favorite of some smart hedge fund managers, including noted value investor Whitney Tilson.  However Todd Sullivan notes that the company has not increased its book value per share in over a decade.  Can the stock truly outperform if it can’t increase its own n

 
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Avoid the Blame Game—Take Responsibility for Your Financial Affairs

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The following is an excerpt from Your Life & Your Money.

We must become the change that we want to see in the world.—Mahatma Gandhi

We live in an age of delusion. It seems to be the inherent nature of mankind.

 
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