Sunday, February 8, 2009

How to take advantage of green sense

www.citizensbank.com/greensense

So, here's what the deal is, every time you use your citizen's bank atm card, you get 10 cents in your account. There is a cap of $120 per year you can earn this way. That's 1200 transactions!!! So... How do we take advantage of this?

I think we should make a web site that will make 1200 small purchases throughout the year. In exchange the web site will take 2 cents out of every 10 cents you should get back. So for zero effort, you could make about $100.

Nice.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

I made tons of m$ney


On 11-20-2008, my 401k purchased about 3 shares of DODGX at 60.190 each.
That's a total of $180

now those 3 shares are worth 68.22 each or 204.66, sweet that's a gain of PLUS 13%

Now consider that at one point not too long ago those shares were worth like $120 each, so if those numbers return, my shares will some day be worth: $360. That's a 100% gain. How long until then? who knows.

Saturday, December 13, 2008

http://www.mymoneyblog.com/archives/2008/12/historical-distribution-of-annual-us-market-returns-from-1825-present-how-bad-was-2008.html

based on the diagram in this post, 2008 is 'once-maybe-twice-in-a-lifetime' type of a year, as far as investing is concerned. interesting, huh? wonder where 2009 will end up...

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Making myself feel better. A chart!



As you can see from this chart, this market is great! Each dollar I spend is buying more and more shares of DODGX!!

Monday, November 17, 2008

WTF

Hi, what the hell, my 401k is down like 50%. Here is what I have to say to all those bone heads who are saying "stay the course"

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

the market - a ponzi scheme?

http://www.blogmaverick.com/2008/09/08/talking-stocks-and-money/

good stuff by Mark Cuban

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

another money-making idea

inspired by: http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2008/07/23/human-powered_floating_gym.php

create (rather, modify existing designs of) gym machines that generate electricity, sell to metropolis gyms. treadmills, stationary bikes, elliptical trainers and stair-masters are easy; what's slightly harder is the weight-machines. how would you have the user generate more electricity, as the resistance is increased? in other words, how do you make sure the increase in resistance is achieved by generating more electricity, rather that by adding more weights?

starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo

makes all the sense in the world, right?