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Category Archives: Money
Finals week and Economic Animation
Day 112 of 1000 This week is finals week at Wake Technical Community College. Everyone in the house except me studied for finals. I worked on a project for my new job which involved mostly study about a new product. … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, Inkscape, Linux, macroeconomics, Nikon, Wake Tech
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Kelly has a new article up at The College Fix
Kelly and I just had the following instant message exchange. The first link is an article she wrote. The second link is about students who study hard stuff versus students who don’t. After the exchange we discuss why it is … Continue reading
NCSU tuition increase causes serious hardship
Now that we found out NCSU is going to make dramatic tuition increases, Christian has decided he is going to make do with the equipment he had. RWDub’s Reviews will be quite happy to know he uses Linux Mint on … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Education, Money, Technology
Tagged Linux Mint, NCSU, RWDub's Reviews, tuition
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Computer travails: Why we are not rich
Day 89 of 1000 When it rains it pours. Between Kelly and Christian, there are five research papers that need to be written between now and November 30. That means most of Thanksgiving break will be spent at the computer … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Money, Technology
Tagged Dell, Khan Academy, Lenovo, Thinkpad, WebAssign
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Cables at RadioShack
Day 82 0f 1000 I just bought three USB cables to charge our telephones at Amazon for $5.37 total including shipping. That was after Lorena bought one cable at RadioShack for $24, then turned around and took it back. We … Continue reading
Math and Engineering degrees are great even if you want to do something else
Day 80 of 1000 I found a great article in the Wall Street Journal this morning titled Generation Jobless: Students Pick Easier Majors Despite Less Pay. It had some startling statistics: Workers who majored in psychology have median earnings that … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Education, Homeschool, Money
Tagged Alex Harris, Amazima, Brett Harris, Do hard things, Katie Davis, Kisses from Katie, Math, Oregon, Patrick Henry College, WSJ
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Stock picking stuff for Rigo
Rigo, This is the stock picking stuff I promised I would write for you on the internet. A book was written by a guy named Joel Greenblatt for non-professional traders on how to invest in the stock market in a … Continue reading
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Stock purchase day
In my on-going effort to buy “good” stocks “cheap”. I bought 32 shares of IDCC at 31.22 and 57 shares of WDC at 17.93 today. The whole market is way down from when we got in, but we are still … Continue reading
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Stock pick update
After less than two weeks, my stock picks are up 5.21% and the S&P 500 is down 2.82%. We are doing over 8% better than the S&P 500.
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First real stock purchase
Today is my first day to buy stock using the stock purchase plan I developed to evaluate good and cheap stocks. I had decided to buy PWEI and RAIL, but PWEI got bought yesterday so I am going with RAIL … Continue reading
Homeschool economics education
I believe economics education is very important, but have had a struggle trying to figure out how to teach it. I think I have finally come up with a plan to get us started. We have been covering the basic … Continue reading
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Blogging on life, homeschool, programming, wrting, and investing
I have been evaluating what we do here on this blog to come up with some additional blog topics. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know by posting a comment. I would be happy to do some research, … Continue reading
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Robot, computer, and investment stuff
Christian showed me his last Lego NXT creation yesterday. It is a scorpion that walks around and stings stuff. If he has time to email me a photo or a video of the thing, I will put it up here … Continue reading
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Investing and money management for homeschool
I have been thinking about how to teach Kelly and Christian about managing their money and investing for the future. We talk about money and its place in our life, but we have not yet put together a formal program. … Continue reading
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