{"id":9,"date":"2014-01-14T00:56:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T00:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outsiderinvestor.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2014-01-14T00:56:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T00:56:07","slug":"why-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outsiderinvestor.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Why do this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a world glutted with blogs and commentary, why launch a new one? I mean, is this 1998 again, and I think this blog thing might really catch on?<\/p>\n<p>Truth is, I do see a need for this blog. I&#8217;m just a regular guy who likes to watch the news and keep on top of things. As things go nowadays, even regular guys need to invest, but where can I go to get information? Sure, there&#8217;s a lot of investing advice out there, but most of it is tied to services. Either the blogger is fronting for a financial services company or they&#8217;re a consultant. I just want some straight-up news about what&#8217;s happening in the world of investing that I should care about.<\/p>\n<p>Now, what I care about is that the investments I make are sound.<\/p>\n<p>So, that said, in the course of this blog we&#8217;re going to talk about a lot of things; current events, earnings, 401k, real estate, and whatever interests me. We&#8217;ll talk about general things like Random Walk Theory and stock picking, what kind of indicators I should pay attention to, is everyone in the financial world full of crap. We&#8217;ll also go into specifics, are 401k&#8217;s the best place for our money, does buying a house make sense, what&#8217;s going to happen to the bond market when interest rates rise.<\/p>\n<p>I have one thing really going against me as a blogger, I&#8217;m pretty even keeled and mostly willing to look at both sides of an argument. I&#8217;ll try to keep it from being Land of the Happy People, though, and keep it as spicy as I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world glutted with blogs and commentary, why launch a new one? I mean, is this 1998 again, and I think this blog thing might really catch on? Truth is, I do see a need for this blog. I&#8217;m just a regular guy who likes to watch the news and keep on top of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outsiderinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outsiderinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outsiderinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outsiderinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outsiderinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outsiderinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.outsiderinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outsiderinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outsiderinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outsiderinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}