In another effort to keep TSP Talk a free site, I am going to try
something new by offering some
items for sale. While you might find anything here on a given day, most of the items will come from my other business,
Artists & Heirlooms.
Artists & Heirlooms is a fine art and antiques gallery my wife and I
opened in June 2004. We initially bought the building where it
stands with the intentions of renting it out to another business.
But
after a deal with a local restaurant fell through, we decided to open a
business doing something which we both enjoyed.
The more I learned about money and investing, the more I concentrated on
trying to buy assets with my money, rather than liabilities. Items
such as stereo equipment, automobiles, toys (children's or adult's), etc., are
liabilities. They will lose value rather rapidly and eventually
become worthless. If you compare that to a quality piece of
artwork or a hard to find antique or collectible, at the very least
these items should hold their value and of course could increase in value.
I may also sell other items such as investment type books or tapes, and
even some "liabilities" just to have a little fun.
Hopefully I will have time to put up a new item each day but whatever
the item up for sale, as soon as it is sold, it is over. I will
always offer the best deal I can and keep shipping costs low.
For now, all payments will be made via PayPal.
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Before I jump into higher priced art and antique items, let's start
out with something inexpensive as a test. Today's item is...
Confessions of a Street Addict by James J. Cramer on audio cassette.
An abridged version of the book Confessions of a Street Addict
on 4 audio cassettes read by the author. It is slightly used and in good condition.
Running time: Approx. 5 hours. Retails for $26.
Confessions of a Street Addict by James J. Cramer on audio cassette:
Price
$6.00
Shipping
$4.00
Total $10.00
There is only one available and once it is sold it's over. I'll
post another item another day.
SOLD
About the book:
In the most candid look at Wall Street
since Liar's Poker, James J. Cramer, co-founder of TheStreet.com, radio
and television commentator, and for years one of Wall Street's premier
money managers, takes readers on a no-holds-barred tour of life on Wall
Street -- revealing how the game is played, who breaks the rules, and
who gets hurt. Everyone on Wall Street knows Jim Cramer, and Cramer
knows Wall Street better than anyone. For fifteen years he ran Cramer
Berkowitz, one of the Street's most successful hedge funds, with a
compounded annual return of 24 percent after all fees. In Confessions of
a Street Addict, he takes us from his fascination with the stock market
as a middle-class kid in the Philadelphia suburbs to Harvard, where he
began managing money. After an apprenticeship at Goldman Sachs, Cramer
went into business with his wife, Karen, the "Trading Goddess," as his
partner. Cramer brilliantly describes the life of a money manager -- the
frenetic pace, the constant pressure to outperform the market and other
fund managers, and the sharklike attacks fund managers make as they
circle a fund perceived to be in trouble.
At the same time that he was managing money, Cramer was one of the
best-known commentators on the financial markets. A former president of
the Harvard Crimson, Cramer had been a newspaper reporter before he
began managing money. While he was a fund manager, he wrote for
SmartMoney and other publications, making him one of the first money
managers to offer insight and analysis from inside the world of finance.
With the rise of the Internet and online publishing, he co-founded
TheStreet.com, the online financial Web site.
In one of the most fascinating chapters in this book, Cramer takes us
inside the IPO of TheStreet.com, where he found himself a knowledgeable
but helpless onlooker as his own Web site came on the market at an
unrealistically high price that it never reached again, a harbinger of
the dot-com disasters that would soon haunt the stock market.
Question?
I won't always be able to answer questions during the day, but if you have a question about this item or
transaction, please
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and I will respond as soon as I can. Thanks!
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