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What’s the Point of Calculating Net Worth?

April 11th, 2012 | 40 Comments

What’s the Point of Calculating Net Worth?

I enjoy reading other PF bloggers’ monthly reports on their net worth progress, whether they use real numbers or percentage increases.  I haven’t so far written a net worth post or series for us and as of now I don’t plan to.  I just don’t see how it would be interesting or informative in our situation.  So I’ll bore you with one post instead of with a series.   Here are the components that contribute to our … Read entire article »

Filed under: net worth, savings, stock market

We Are Debt-Free, We’re Not Debt-Free, We Are Debt-Free, We’re Not Debt-Free…

December 9th, 2011 | 26 Comments

OK fine, we’re not debt-free! … technically. Upon graduation from college, I had a little over $17,000 in student loans, which immediately went into deferment and will stay deferred until I graduate with my PhD. (During a deferment period, no payments are due.) All but $1000 of the loans were subsidized (not accruing interest), and I paid off the unsubsidized loan within a few months of graduating. So my debt balance stands, unchanging and undue (yet), … Read entire article »

Filed under: debt, investing

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