Political Calculations is officially one year old today - I thought it might be fun to mark the occasion by posting the master index to the tools created and posted here on this Scrappy Little-Read Blog(TM) since December 6, 2004. There's a bit of blurring between the various categories, but that's the nature of the math we do around these parts:
Investing
- Best and Worst Case Stock Market Investing
- Investing: Future Value
- Investing: Rate of Return
- Investing: How Long?
- Annuity Payments
- Lemony Snicket vs. King Midas
- Mapping Stock Market Extremes
- Investing in Real Estate for Cash Flow
- Changing Value in the Stock Market
- Calculating Return on Invested Capital
- Should You Keep or Sell Those Stock Options?
Personal Finance
- Your 2005 Paycheck
- Marginal Tax Rates and Investment Choices
- Your Investment Portfolio
- How Much Do You Pay in Gas Taxes?
- Your Education and Your Earnings
- Saving for College
- Paying Off Your Loan
- Your Student Loan
- Are You Wealthy?
- Your Thrift Savings Plan Portfolio
- Comparing Standard and Hybrid Cars
- Is It Worth the Drive?
- Paying Off Your Credit Card Bill
Elections
- Simple Majority Win
- Recounting the Odds
- Predicting Outcomes
- New Jersey's Election for Governor (2005)
- The Virginia Governor's Race (2005)
- The King County (WA) Executive Race
- Washington State's I-912 (Gas Tax Rollback)
Politics
- Your Investment Return from Social Security
- Social Security or Private Retirement Accounts?
- The President's Plan for Social Security and You
- Slashing Social Security Benefits
- Projecting the Growth of Pork
Economics
- The Cost of Risk vs. Benefit
- Average Wages in the U.S.
- Forecasting GDP Using the "Climbing Limo" Method
- Projecting U.S. Median Housing Prices
Life, Stuff and Everything Else
- MSM versus Blogger Influence
- How Long Will You Live?
- Will You Be Checking Any Bags Today?
- Estimating Your Life Expectancy
- Truth and the Time to React
- Revisiting the Lottery
- How Much Is That Idea Really Worth?
- Estimating the U.S. Population
So, what does the future hold? In short, more of the same, but less often. A combination of old and new challenges and projects will be pulling me away from the daily grind of blogging and my posting will become much less frequent in the days ahead. Until then, I have a bit of a backlog that I'll be unwinding over the next two to three weeks, so it may take a while to notice things settling into their new pattern.
What can I say - the past year has been really fun! Evolving from Slimy Mollusc to Marauding Marsupial and back to where we are today in the TTLB Ecosystem. Nearly hitting 40,000 visitors in a year for a very specialized blog niche (I do believe that I still have *the* monopoly on blog-based practical math tools!) Who could ask for more? Thank you all for visiting - and come back whenever you need a tool I've developed to help solve a problem that matters to you, or to see what's new!
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