Idea Man

My thoughts on technology, trumpeting and other ’stuff’

Entries Tagged as 'Finance'

Stock Proxies – Is this legal?

June 20th, 2006 · Comments Off

Before I mention this idea I want to preface it by stating that it is probably not legal…. not sure. Anyway, I used to have a stock purchase plan at a company I worked at and it seemed like a good deal if you had money to invest from your paycheck. The way ours worked [...]

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Tags: Finance

rfid, bar code, or bluetooth coupon device

June 15th, 2006 · Comments Off

I am always amazed at the people in line in front of me at the grocery store who have a bazillion coupons cut out and their $120 total comes to $4.20 when they are done. What I don’t get is how they found these coupons and is the amount of time they took to find [...]

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Tags: Finance · Inventions/Ideas

investing book that i like….

June 14th, 2006 · Comments Off

About 6 months ago a relative turned me onto a book by Joel Greenblatt titled “The Little Book that Beats the Market”. The book is short and is a quick read and is pretty informative for people like me with no educational background in finance (and no willingness to spend hours a day pouring over [...]

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Tags: Finance

trick yourself into paying off the big items

June 13th, 2006 · 2 Comments

I always thought that I would pay off my mortgage a lot quicker if I could chip away at it with the ease of using my credit card. This idea is not for those who have excessive credit card debt, I think this would be best served for those folks, like me, that live off [...]

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Tags: Finance