Posts for May 2008→

In view of the soaring gas price (with the USA average nearing $4 a gallon) and its impact on the Memorial day travel, it is interesting that people are facing much harder times in Europe, where the fuel price in many countries has already exceeded $8 a gallon!
Continue >>

Warren Buffett said in an interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel, published last Saturday, that the US is “already in recession”, even though “perhaps not in the sense that economists would define it”, and “it will be deeper and last longer than many think”.
Continue >>

I don’t know about the smartest, but at less than 180 pages this is certainly the smallest investing book I have ever read. The bargain price of $4.97 was worth it though. (The size falls below the minimum 200-page limit I follow when paying $5 for any book on investing, but that is okay, as long as quality compensates for the lack of quantity.)
Continue >>

I always enjoy reading a well-written book on investing, and not because I am learning something new each time. In fact, after you are done with a half-dozen or so really good books, you pretty much know all there is to know about investing, and rest is mere detail.
Continue >>

In the recent annual meeting of the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders held last Saturday, CEO Warren Buffett was asked about the best investment idea he would recommend to an investor in his 30’s. In his own words:

I would just have it all in a very low-cost index fund from a reputable firm, maybe Vanguard. Unless I bought during a strong bull market, I would feel confident that I would outperform…and I could just go back and get on with my work.

Continue >>

(This post belongs to the series About blogging.)

Securing a WordPress-powered blog is one of the most pressing concerns of newbie and pro bloggers alike (several horror stories are doing rounds here). I have done my own research on this topic, and here put together a list of some of the popular suggestions and tips to secure your WordPress blog.
Continue >>

• Welcome to PF&Investing

  I am a scientist working in a US university, and I also study the dynamics of financial markets and their impact on our financial health. More...

• Browse by keyword

  1-year-cd asset-allocation bond bull-market buy-and-hold cpi curriculum dealer-warranty demand-supply dow-jones edmunds fidelity fixed-income high-risk index-fund Inflation Investing long-term low-risk market-correction market-fluctuation market-timing money-market new-car paycheck portfolio-diversification purchasing-power random-walk-down-wall-street rebalance retirement-saving s&p-500 samarins saving secondary-market security stock-fund stock-picking t-rowe-price undervalued-stock used-car value-investing vanguard VIN warren-buffett wordpress