Friday, November 28, 2008

Short Takes: Emergency Funds, Hazardous Waste, and more

1. BluntMoney argues that we need to cover more than the bare minimum of expenses in our emergency funds because we will find it difficult to give up our lifestyle-related spending in a financial emergency.

2. Big Cajun Man doubts that most people are willing to pay fees to dispose of hazardous waste.

3. Preet explains different ways of weighting stocks in an index with some clear examples: cap-weighting and fair-value weighting part I and part II.

3 comments:

  1. Thanks for the link MJ!

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  2. I appreciate the link MJ. Have a good weekend!

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  3. I think I'll pass on BCE. I'm don't follow BCE closely and am not sure that the market's guess isn't accurate given that the deal is almost dead and there will be no break-up fee.

    Thanks for the mention Michael.

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