{"id":595,"date":"2008-10-12T05:22:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T10:22:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-10-12T05:22:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T10:22:10","slug":"money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"money"},"content":{"rendered":"

After paying into my IRA again this coming spring I should have a little bit of money left over (should I even admit that fact to anyone in a time like this? – that I saved my money instead of buying iphones and plasmascreens – I might as well say “Let them eat cake!”). I could save this for “emergencies” (problems with the condo, health problems, job layoff, etc.), but I’ve been thinking about putting some of it in the market. <\/p>\n

the problem is – I know nothing about the market. Nothing. <\/p>\n

And this <\/a> doesn’t make me any more confident. Where am I supposed to learn (outside of adding a “finance” focus to this upcoming MBA)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After paying into my IRA again this coming spring I should have a little bit of money left over (should I even admit that fact to anyone in a time like this? – that I saved my money instead of buying iphones and plasmascreens – I might as well say “Let them eat cake!”). I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}