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 ...

My foray into peer to peer lending

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

I am the bank! I just made my first loan at Lending Club. I have been hanging around Prosper for a long time - reading loan stories and looking at the set-up, but I had never created an account. I had read a few horror stories on fatwallet and I don't ...