Yesterday, on top of my daily earnings, I also earned almost $6,000 in my 401k account due to the final piece of my company match vesting. Five long years I’ve waited to have full ownership of this money. It feels…
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Net Worth: Loss of Control Angst
For a while on this site I was posting my net worth. I took it down because it didn’t seem to be adding value to the conversations and as it grew it began to feel more like bragging. It’s not…
Posted in Net Worth, Retirement
Recapping 2012 and Setting Goals for 2013
Well, 2012 was a pretty tumultuous year politically, and I was angry about the dereliction of duty by our Congress for most of it. Luckily for you guys I left my rants out of this blog. Coming into 2013 it…
Tagged with: 401k, fiscal goals, payroll tax, Roth IRA
Posted in Net Worth, Retirement, Savings, Tracking
Posted in Net Worth, Retirement, Savings, Tracking
The Roth IRA: For You, For Me, For Everybody
Source: goodfinancialcents.com via Jeff on Pinterest Look, I'm not a big joiner, but when I saw Jeff over at Good Financial Cents tweet about starting a movement that increases the awareness and usage of Roth IRA's, I couldn't say…
Arcos Dorados Holdings (ARCO) for my Roth
Arcos Dorados Holdings (ARCO) began trading today. I picked up 30 shares at $21.35 in my Roth IRA. I intend this to be a long-term hold. As a bit of background, Arcos is McDonald’s (MCD) largest franchisee, the Master franchiser…
No More Annual Statements from Social Security
Multiple sources have reported that the Social Security Administration will not be sending annual statements for the remainder of the fiscal year (Sept.) and will only send statements to those 60 or older next year. This is, of course, a…
Stock Purchases – Dow Chemical; Allied Capital Corporation
I love buying on down days. Granted today is another down day and I bought these stocks during yesterday’s down day, but you can’t spend your life trying to time the market. It’s another reason I’m buying quality companies so…
