February 26, 2008

Late Third Blogiversary Post

Filed under: General — TBlumer @ 4:27 pm

BizzyBlog began on February 22, 2005, with a post on Social Security, and how its retirement benefit calculation works. Stated quickly, it hasn’t changed; the more you make during your working career, the less you get back in benefits as a percentage of your income (sorry, I’m just the messenger).

Otherwise, wow…. infinite thanks to all readers, commenters, and advertisers.

And now back to our not-so-regular programming.

6 Comments

  1. First, happy anniversary!

    Second, here’s a tool that approximates what your rate of return would be if Social Security were a real investment.

    Third, it’s pretty much just as you describe….

    Comment by Ironman — February 26, 2008 @ 6:24 pm

  2. No, the wrong person is expressing thanks. I thank you very much for the job you do and the effort you expend to help us common folk understand the economics of our society. The sprinkle of politics adds a good deal of flavor as well. Please understand that there are many of us who rely on your wisdom, knowledge, and hard work to make sense of what our MSMedia won’t tell us. I for one thank you each day I visit our site, and I hope you continue the effort.

    Comment by WGPierce — February 26, 2008 @ 11:29 pm

  3. #1, that is a cool tool.

    #2, shucks, I’m speechless. Thanks.

    Comment by TBlumer — February 27, 2008 @ 1:27 am

  4. Keep tapping away at those keys, we have lots of work still to do! We have scams to uncover, hoaxes to debunk, and lots of fast talking politicians to hold accountable. Congrats and here’s to many more years of foiling the MSM propaganda machine.

    May your bandwidth be sizable, your site views be numerous and your DNS attacks be few. From your fellow internet denizen.

    Comment by dscott — February 27, 2008 @ 8:55 am

  5. #1, excellent link, look at the calculators on the side, especially the S&P link you can see the PE ratio for any month, notice the most current PE ratios are very good compared to 2000 Dot Com bust and notice the nice comparisons to return versus inflation at the bottom. Excellent!!!! As an old fashioned investor I find such infomation extremely useful in guaging the market. They even have a recession calculator, 0.6% chance btw.

    Comment by dscott — February 27, 2008 @ 10:04 am

  6. #5: Thank you very much! We do our best to operate a gold mine….

    Comment by Ironman — February 27, 2008 @ 9:59 pm

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