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How much is a trillion anyway?
I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to lose the awe I first felt when I heard the number “one trillion.” The number has been thrown around so much with the stimulus plan, various bailouts, etc. that it is easy to forget how large that number truly is. Let’s see it written out, just [...]
Mortgage Bailout Math
I’m not sure if mortgages is the right category for this, but I have to put it somewhere, so I’ll put it here. A lot of friends have asked me what I think about the various bailouts, stimulus plans, etc. I agree with many people, that they simply won’t do what they are being touted [...]
Why thirty years is the default for mortgages
This is the first post on mortgages, and I hope it highlights the kind of analytical approach I’d like to take on this blog. A few months back, No Debt Plan took a look at fifteen year versus thirty year mortgages. There was a lot of discussion and debate on the topic, and No Debt [...]
Welcome to Finance for Nerds
Have you ever read a personal finance book and wondered where the details were? Have you ever wished that you could really dig into the math behind personal finance? If so, this is the site for you. Rather than talk about boilerplate personal finance issues, I hope to really get into the meat of the [...]