rocket finance » debt http://www.rocketfinance.net Finance is not rocket science, unless it is government finance. Sun, 02 May 2010 17:20:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Numbers and debthttp://www.rocketfinance.net/2009/04/07/numbers-and-debt/ http://www.rocketfinance.net/2009/04/07/numbers-and-debt/#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:05:10 +0000 rocketc http://www.rocketfinance.net/?p=930 If you spent a million dollars a day every day since the day Christ was born, you still would not have spent a trillion dollars. If you stacked $1 bills on top of each other, your stack would have to go 78,914 miles into space before you reached a trillion dollars. If you laid 1 [...]

Numbers and debt

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What is $6,992?

]]> http://www.rocketfinance.net/2008/02/06/what-is-6992/feed/ 6 Net Worth for the New Yearhttp://www.rocketfinance.net/2008/01/02/net-worth-for-the-new-year/ http://www.rocketfinance.net/2008/01/02/net-worth-for-the-new-year/#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:00:15 +0000 rocketc http://www.rocketfinance.net/2008/01/02/net-worth-for-the-new-year/ The M-network and friends are posting about net worth today. Net worth is basically the difference between the positive side of the ledger (assets) and the negative side (debt). There are a lot of different theories on figuring net worth. I have included my house and “0% balance transfer” money. I am not going to reveal every single [...]

Net Worth for the New Year

]]> http://www.rocketfinance.net/2008/01/02/net-worth-for-the-new-year/feed/ 22 Interesting Loan Offerhttp://www.rocketfinance.net/2007/11/26/interesting-loan-offer/ http://www.rocketfinance.net/2007/11/26/interesting-loan-offer/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:30:54 +0000 rocketc http://www.rocketfinance.net/2007/11/26/interesting-loan-offer/ I just received this notice in the mail last week regarding our car loan payment. We are pretty tight for cash right now so I am tempted to accept the offer, but I’m not completely convinced that the deal is such a good idea in the long run. Here is the pitch: Good news! There’s one bill you won’t [...]

Interesting Loan Offer

]]> http://www.rocketfinance.net/2007/11/26/interesting-loan-offer/feed/ 2 What if I Were Debt Free?http://www.rocketfinance.net/2007/10/21/what-if-i-were-debt-free/ http://www.rocketfinance.net/2007/10/21/what-if-i-were-debt-free/#comments Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:55:34 +0000 rocketc http://www.rocketfinance.net/2007/10/21/what-if-i-were-debt-free/ I have been tagged by Plonkee in the post If I Were Debt Free. When I first found out that I had been tagged on this topic, I immediately thought, “That will be easy to write about.” But as I began to consider the issue, I realized that I really hadn’t thought about being debt [...]

What if I Were Debt Free?

]]> http://www.rocketfinance.net/2007/10/21/what-if-i-were-debt-free/feed/ 4 The Best Way to Get Out of Debt In My Humble Opinionhttp://www.rocketfinance.net/2007/10/17/the-best-way-to-get-out-of-debt/ http://www.rocketfinance.net/2007/10/17/the-best-way-to-get-out-of-debt/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:35:37 +0000 rocketc http://www.rocketfinance.net/2007/10/17/the-best-way-to-get-out-of-debt/ I think most of us understand the basic personal finance platitudes, even though we don’t always apply them: spend less than you make           save for emergencies         make compound interest work in your favor        pay off credit cards every month        comparison shop        Roth and Traditional IRA’s are both okay      time is the [...]

The Best Way to Get Out of Debt In My Humble Opinion

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