Archive for the 'Money' Category
Continental OnePass Plus Card: Free 25,000 Miles, Free Checked Bag, Primary Rental Car Insurance
Now that I’m flying a lot more again, I’m back in the hunt for some frequent flier perks. I just came across the new Continental Airlines OnePass Plus Card…
Charts: College Tuition vs. Housing Bubble vs. Medical Costs

This chart from Clusterstock (via Carpe Diem) shows the cost of college tuition comparison to historical housing prices and the Consumer Price Index (CPI) over the same period. The CPI is designed to track our…
How To Sue a Telemarketer (Book Summary)
I’ve been getting an increasing number of telemarketing calls recently, so I readily agreed to a review copy of How To Sue a Telemarketer by Stephen Ostrow, lawyer and judge. I had a vague recollection that you can get $500 every time…
Google Offers Free PC-to-Phone Calls To US & Canada
There was a lot of media coverage yesterday when Google announced that they would offer PC-to-Phone calls to US and Canada numbers for free from their Gmail interface. To try it out if…
Getting Organized In The Google Era (Book Summary)
I ran across Getting Organized in the Google Era in an airport bookstore last month, and while I wasn’t about to pay the $23 retail hardcover price, I did add it to my library want list. The author Douglas Merrill…

I was going through some old financial files and came across an old E-Trade statement which was my first brokerage account and found my first shares of stocks ever purchased in August of 2001. This was after the dot-com bubble burst, and I…










