Category Archives: Finance

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy, And Be Greedy When Others Are Fearful

When the Oracle Of Omaha speaks, the world takes notice and his OpEd piece in the New York Times is possibly a voice of sanity in this time of greed and fear.
Warren Buffett is diving headlong into U.S. equities with a strong warning to cash-hoarders:
Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They [...]

PAN-demonium

Population of India: More then 1.13 billion
But if you want to know your PAN number, you just go here: https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/knowpan/knowpan.do - and then enter just your Last Name and Date of Birth??!!
Heaven help you if you share your last name with someone else who was also born on the same day. My friend in India [...]

What? You can’t deduct that!

With the 2006 tax-filing season upon us, Bankrate.com is back with some of the Craziest tax write-offs you’ve ever heard of. This one is a doozy:
The deduction was [...]

Dilbert’s Unified Theory of Everything Financial

Could 9 simple rules be everything we ever need to know about personal finance? Well, Paul Farrell from MarketWatch certainly seems to think so and infact goes so far as to say Scott Adams, the brilliant creator of the mouthless cubicle-dweller, should be awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics!
These 9 rules were originally published in [...]