Wealthonomics

I've learned a lot about personal wealth, especially in the past 21 months.  I decided to start this site to share what I've learned and about my experiences.

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I'm Jen and a UC Berkeley Economics grad. This is my site on personal wealth.

January 9th 2009
Tags: Books, Investing, Saving No Comments

Free Book: 2009 Action Plan for Your Money

The other day I was browsing some deal sites and found out about a free financial book download coming this week. It's Suze Orman's new book, "2009 Action Plan: Keeping Your Money Safe & Sound", offered by Oprah. Along with the free book, Suze offered some advice on ...
January 8th 2009
Tags: Behavior One Comment

$280,000 of Credit Card Debt

When I was in college at Cal, I remember there was always a group of people tabling in front of the campus store often at the beginning of the school year. They would try to get your attention with offers of free stuff if you fill out some forms ...
January 3rd 2009
Tags: Behavior, Saving No Comments

2009 is Better for Gym Rats

I was having some friends over for New Year's Eve and some of them were saying how they and their friends who regularly go to the gym hate the new year because the gym is crowded the first couple weeks of the new year thanks to the ever popular resolution ...
December 28th 2008
Tags: Behavior, Saving, Spending No Comments

Men and their Trophy Mates and Happy Partners

Finding more use out of my old iPod mini, I started listening to The Wall Street Journal This Morning podcasts on my drive to work. Recently, they mentioned that the spending habits of men are related to their dating behavior based on findings from a research study from the University of ...
December 24th 2008
Tags: Books, Investing 3 Comments

The Most Important Part of the Portfolio

This past weekend, I chatted with two friends who took a financial economics class with me at Cal for one of our upper division electives. We spent a short amount of time reminiscing about our Econ days and studying together for Econ exams. From that financial economics class ...

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