http://www.boiling-frogs.org Pointing out the obvious since 2007 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:02:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is the second in my Present Value series, and the first in which I'll be looking at other's claims which seem to make sense at first glance, but are terribly misleading under closer examination. I pick these examples not to prove others wrong, but because taking present value into ... http://www.boiling-frogs.org/2007/09/22/vanguard-npv/ So. I promised myself this would simply be a forum to educate people on what I think are obvious, but overlooked, paradigms of personal finance. And possibly other topics (though my econ background doesn't help with cooking -- and i expected economics at university would be like home economics in ... http://www.boiling-frogs.org/2007/09/21/washington-mutual-excess-activity-fdic-regulation-d/ In my newly-minted capacity as a financially-responsible person, I've been reading a lot of personal finance blogs and other resources. And there's one very big point that everybody seems to be missing -- "present value" or "the time-value of money". It was the first and most important lesson in my ... http://www.boiling-frogs.org/2007/09/19/apples-oranges/