Archive for the 'Home Finance' Category

Creating an Amortization Table with Excel

Monday, June 13th, 2005

Ok, because I am not taxing my bandwidth enough as it is, I have decided to take a crack at screencasting. As a follow-up to my post on cash back mortgages, I have decided to do a small screencast showing how to create a simple amortization table using Excel.
You will need Macromedia Flash installed to [...]

What Does an Extra 0.6 Percent Hurt?

Sunday, June 12th, 2005

I was in the bank the other day and saw a bright pink sheet of paper advertising the latest mortgage rates. What struck me was the offer for 3% cash back on your mortgage, in exchange for a measly 0.6% increase on your mortgage rate. Hey, it’s only point six percent, surely that can’t be [...]

Book Review - The Automatic Millionaire

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

Last weekend I found myself in an airport shop in Salt Lake City, halfway home from San Jose with a 2 hour flight ahead of me. I had learned from the previous leg of the trip that the plane I would be flying on featured so little room that using my laptop was out of [...]