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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

I recently heard a fellow personal finance blogger say that at the rate bank savings APR's were dropping, it almost doesn't make sense to keep saving money. Now, no self-respecting personal finance blogger would ever sign his name to such a statement and I am not going to "out" him here, ...

Lending Club beat my expectations

Monday, February 16th, 2009

I didn't expect this result. When I opened Lending Club accounts for my wife and I over a year ago, I intended to lend out a little bit of money here and there, but not risk any real cash. For me, Lending Club was a diversion. Looking at borrowers and reading ...

Friday Stack: holy traffic, Batman!

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Rocket Finance is finishing up one of its highest traffic weeks ever. There seemed to be a high level of interest in the Our Story series about how my wife and I made up a $5,000 deficit in our annual budget without getting another job or playing the lottery. Pinyo, at ...

Hedging with Lending Club II

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

This the next in a series of posts about my experiences with Lending Club. I am especially interested in getting the best possible return on my money without placing the principle at risk - since most of my principle is the result of 0% balance transfer arbitrage. You may want ...

Hedging with Lending Club I

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

This post is part of a series on how to increase your return on balance transfer arbitrage by using Lending Club. Balance transfer arbitrage is the practice of acquiring large sums of money from a credit card at 0% interest, depositing the cash in the bank and then profiting from ...