Aug 26, 2013
It has been over eleven months since I opened my Lending Club account and started experimenting in the field of peer-to-peer lending. While I have been providing monthly updates on my little headquarters page, many have asked that I write a new post to summarize the results. So here’s the summary: With an annualized return…
Mar 21, 2013
Can you Really earn 10% Annual Returns These Days!?! Find out at the MMM Lending Club Experiment Headquarters. In September of 2012, I started making a series of investments in the relatively new field of peer-to-peer lending, choosing a company called Lending Club as the destination. The goal is to see if the higher returns…
Feb 3, 2013
Adventurous readers may recall that we are in the middle of a Lending Club Experiment – on September 24th, I posted an article describing my first foray into peer-to-peer lending and promised to keep you updated on the progress of the investment. At the time I invested $10,000, and distributed it mostly among the higher-yielding…
Dec 18, 2012
Want to hear something really weird? All this time, I’ve been writing this blog about financial independence, a term and movement that is often credited to the 1993 book “Your Money or Your Life”. I had been assuming that Mr. Money Mustache himself was at least partly motivated by a long-ago reading of that book…