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Playing with the Market

August 22, 2009 in The nuts and bolts of it | 2 comments

Kris asked for some links for ways to play the Stock Market as an educational tool without putting any real money in play.

I couldn’t find the one I thought I remember Hubby using with at least one of the kids ages ago through E*Trade. If they still have it, it’s buried on their site.

OTH, Boy’s old Economic textbook pushes The Stock Market Game.  I’m not seeing it on the site, but the spread in the book pushed it as the “only” one supported by NYSE or something like that.  I think there’s a fee and if they work with homeschoolers, I don’t know.

Supposedly you can find another game by searching for SMS and your state’s name.  Since I think you’re in California, here’s the Stock Market Simulation for you.

and OTH, when I tried doing that for Indiana, I got referred to Wall Street Survivor. Which appears to not be state specific.

In tracking this all down, I also ran into Chart School, and educational site about how to analyze stock charts. So, I’ll throw that in as well.

The College Freshman’s POV

August 18, 2009 in COLLEGE | 1 comment

I won’t flood you with the entire thing, but this list is worth a chuckle. And I’ll give you a taste. There are 75 points on the full list.

Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College
Mindset List. It provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape
the lives of students entering college…

Most students entering college for the first time this fall were born in 1991.

  1. For these students, Martha Graham, Pan American Airways, Michael Landon, Dr. Seuss, Miles Davis, The Dallas Times Herald, Gene Roddenberry, and Freddie Mercury have always been dead.
  2. Dan Rostenkowski, Jack Kevorkian, and Mike Tyson have always been felons.
  3. The Green Giant has always been Shrek, not the big guy picking vegetables.
  4. They have never used a card catalog to find a book.
  5. Margaret Thatcher has always been a former prime minister.
  6. Salsa has always outsold ketchup.

Now for something completely different…

August 12, 2009 in The nuts and bolts of it, Time for me to grow up | 4 comments

It’s been a very, very short summer in many ways and tomorrow Boy and I are heading down to Texas to take him back to college. He’s anxious to get there, but I feel like he’s only been home for a short time.

Oh well, the car is loaded and all that’s left is an overnight bag to throw together.

OTH, it’s been a very, very long summer coming to a decision. You may have noticed that I haven’t been posting a lot. My mil puts in down to me spending more time on Facebook (and there’s probably something to that), but I think it’s more that I had trouble writing while we chewed on the decision and I came to terms with it.

Girl and I have spent this week dealing with the local public school. They start the fall term next Tuesday and she’ll be going full-time.

No, getting here has not been easy. There’s been a few issues that have contributed to it, but the main one has been my health. I’m certainly better than I was during the Spring, but I’m not 100% and our hope is that not homeschooling will lower my stress levels.

Of course, since she’s not a freshman, dealing with the local ps has been interesting and it’s still not clear on whether they are going to give her full credit for anything she did last year. But that’s a story onto itself.

And now, since I’ve got a long, long day tomorrow, I think I’ll leave the stories for another time.

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