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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.

• Added on: Feb 25th, 2007
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Ricemutt
• Listed in: Business Career & Jobs
• Tags: stocks investing finance personal finance MBA excel

Recent Posts

• International Space Station and Space Shuttle Atlantis flyby during Thanksgiving

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 13:52 in Current Events

  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

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 00:24 in Current Events, business & entrepreneurship

  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?

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 19:08 in blogging

  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

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 08:21 in excel function tutorials

  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!

  Posted on Thursday October 8th, 2009 at 18:04 in Career

  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

  Posted on Saturday September 26th, 2009 at 00:24 in Career, corporate finance

  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...

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This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

Kevin Parker

Great blog

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