Wheaties bookmarks for October 3rd
Good reading for October 3rd:
- Mind control guru can pay with blank sheets of paper - “No-one would dare pay for an item with blank paper, and because Mr. Brown keeps your mind busy your primal brain kicks in and concentrates on language rather than something more obvious. The result is that Mr. Brown can pay for almost anything with nothing.”
- Using Quicken to Analyze and Correct Bad Spending Habits - Get Rich Slowly - “No matter how smart my money choices, I’ve made it a priority to keep detailed records of my finances. Tonight I dug through four years of Quicken data to see if my comic book spending habits have changed.”
- Bankrate’s 2007 Checking Study: Fees up again - “Bounced-check fees and ATM surcharges for all checking account types have reached new highs — again.”
- The Finance Buff: Missing Name on Forbes 400 List - “Over the years, Vanguard investors saved billions of dollars of mutual fund management fees. The billions of dollars that went to the owners of Fidelity, Franklin, and all other mutual fund management companies, didn’t go to Mr. Bogle. He only drew a salary.”
- Consumer Reports Survey: More Than 90 Percent of Hagglers Scored Better Prices - Via Consumerist: “More than 90 percent of shoppers who tried to negotiate a better deal on goods and services including furniture, electronics and appliances, floor and demonstration models, and medical bills got one…”
October 4th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Thank you Marc for linking to my post. I’m glad you liked it.
October 7th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Re: the Finance Buff’s comment on John Bogle. I saw him speak at a conference a few years, and someone asked him if he regretted setting up Vanguard the way he did, and foregoing potentially billions of dollars (like the other guys, e.g. Johnson at Fidelity, got).
He said “I have something those guys will NEVER have: Enough.”