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When did he say that? I tried to find it but couldn't. I'm interested in how he expands on it.

I do a quick net work calculation ~1 time per year. Since a significant portion of our net worth is still investment real estate, there is real uncertainty to the values on the asset side. To those doing this more often: Are you changing actions you take in your life because you have this information? What insights have you gained from the process? Doing actual vs what I've budgeted for (a variance analysis, if you will) is the big thing. In the plastic society we live in, it's pretty easy for a few $10-15 lunches (or $20-30 dinners) to add up quickly. Net effect is I'm able to plow more of my income back into my investment funds.

x2. The investment section can be a little weak, so I primarily track investments via Excel and leave everything else to Mint.

I agree with you but getting to that point is something that will never happen in our lifetime, at least in the part of the country I live in...

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2014/07/31/336332.htm

That's pretty much how I feel as well. It's always when you least expect it.

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There's a program out on the torrent sites that is very good. If anything I'm an excel wizard now because of it. You'l never click and drag again. Plus you'll learn to love the magic that is Alt + E, S, V.

We didn't even have a Stanley Cup thread! That'd just be a bunch of Habs fans cheering and the other teams sad that they didn't make the playoffs.

They are ALL projected to have $100k+ in student loan debt FOR UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES! One of these persons is going to University of Texas, and two others are going to lesser known skewls. So the person is paying 'in state' tuition to go to UT and is going to have 100k in debt? I find that hard to believe. My guess is the person paying out of state tuition, which is their decision. There aren't any good schools in their own state? Sounds like a poor decision on their part.

Given the concentration of engineers, I'd be interested to see what everyone's Myers-Briggs results. I'm willing to bet we have a majority of introvert thinkers.

The Richest Man in Babylon and Letters from a Self-made merchant to his Son

Pretty good book, I'm just a few chapters in but I noticed the beginning echoes a lot of the key points in Fifer's Double Your Profits.

I've seen it firsthand at my company. It's owned by private equity, so maybe they don't care as much (but they sure do put the screws to everything else). But we've paid out to the CEO the yearly dues for his centurion card, for his wife to decorate the office for holidays and go shopping to buy new office decor, and even pay for his dog sitter when he and his wife went on a trip to Asia, first class accommodations paid by the company of course.

not too surprising to me. People always have to have the latest thing and accumulate so much stuff they can't park inside their garage.

talk about bizarro world...doesn't do much for FIGJAM's squeaky clean image.

It's really all about the new TV deal, the current one expires in 2016. Clippers currently get $25 mm a season, in comparison the Lakers have a deal of $3 billion over 20 years (or $150 mm a season). The Dodgers earlier this year got $8.35 billion over 25 years (also the team sold for a cool $2.1 billion) Sure he probably overpaid, but probably not by too much.

orange is an ugly color.

Probably spent it all on his almond farms.

Yeah kind of a passive-aggressive way of dealing with it. I wonder how it was decided he was going to be on TV then, just coincidence?

fantastic book. glad you picked it up.

he taught me how to love a woman - and how to scold a child

spot on.

ditto, I thought it was a flash crash when I saw it drop 5%.

Also amazing that none of the flights were sold out either.