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Experiments in Finance
http://www.experiglot.com
Personal finance and investing blog written by a 30-ish woman, targeting young working professionals. Topics include value investing, frugality, MBA topics, and working in the corporate world.
Recent Posts
International Space Station and Space Shuttle Atlantis flyby during Thanksgiving
Depending on where you are, you may be able to see both the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Atlantis in the night sky tonight, Thursday, and/or Friday night. Just go to Satellite Flybys and enter in your zip code if you’re in the...
Pulling back the curtain on private equity firms
Yesterday on Fresh Air (a daily public radio show) Terry Gross interviewed Joshua Kosman, the author of a new book called The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Will Cause the Next Great Credit Crisis. While his hypothesis about how private equity...
Off-topic: Do you know more than the average American?
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) published a civics quiz and literacy report a while ago that I meant to post. Feel free to take it, and then click on the links on the left for more info on some of their findings. Embarassingly, I only sco...
How to create a pivot table in Excel 2007 – Part I – a quick and basic intro
Seems like it’s been eons since I posted an Excel tutorial, so I thought I’d write a brief intro on how to create pivot tables in Excel. Pivot tables are unnecessarily mysterious and perplexing to many people, but as you’ll soon see...
Moving out of corporate finance!
As I think I mentioned a few posts ago, there are a lot of changes going on at work. Earlier this year, I had set a goal of trying something different by the end of the year. Well, it’s now Q4, and I’ve decided to move out of my current r...
The most common career mistake most young employees make
This is the first post in a series called “Managing your career – an introductory series“. The main audience I have in mind are analyst-level employees in corporate finance, but I think many parts can be applied more generally to an...

Great blog
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