First up – I’m hosting the Carnival of Personal Finance today over at ABCs of Investing. The theme is “Spring has sprung” - lots of pretty flower pics so head on over and check it out!
Here’s a very funny “extreme frugality” video. It’s pretty short (2 minutes) video by Ramit from I will teach you to be rich. It’s basically poking fun at some silly extreme frugality concepts – check it out. This is the original post the video is on (hint, it was published on April 1).
The Canadian Capitalist and Million Dollar Journey have teamed up to create the Canadian Money Forum – this is a place where you can go and chit chat about money stuff – Canadian or otherwise. You can view the forums without registering (which is very easy) but if you want to post anything you will have to be registered.
Carnivals
I entered in the first ever Carnival of Pecuniary Delights this week held at Pecuniarities. Check it out – some pretty good posts.
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Thanks for plugging the forum Mike!
Spring has sprung? I’m looking at dark skies and snow out my office window right now.
Yes, and I was hearing some thunder to go along with that snow. Lovely weather!
Haha – maybe I should have called it the “Let’s welcome winter back” edition…
Stupid weather!!
Thanks for plugging the Forum Mike. We hope it will develop into a valuable resource for all things financial.
I saw the link here to the new forum yesterday and went over to sign up. I have done a lot of research on the realities of stock investing over the past seven years, have learned lots of exciting stuff and am always looking for new places to share what I have learned and to learn more by talking things over with others. The rules at the Canadian Money Forum are very strong on the question of abusive posting. I took that as a big plus as I have seen that this has become a big problem at many investing boards during the Passive Investing Era. I registered and awaited the e-mail I need to activate my ability to post.
This link tells the story of what happened next:
http://www.s152957355.onlinehome.us/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1239043591
“NFS” is Norbert Schenkler. He has a long history of abusive posting at numerous boards. He is a part-owner of the Financial WebRing Forum, where he had a ban imposed on honest posting re safe withdrawal rates and other valuation-related topics about a year ago. He is a regular at the Goon Central board (linked to above).
There have been numerous articles in the press in recent months speculating on why it is that we recently experienced one of the biggest stock crashes in history. I think it would be fair to say that those who have experienced this kind of thing up close and personal don’t find it nearly so shocking as those who have not.
Rob