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The Small Investor
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A blog providing investing techniques and wealth building strategies. This site is designed in particular for those in the middle class who would like to become wealthy. Also provides some analysis of economic theories and policy as it relates to wealth creation and quality of life.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 1005 )
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Would You Rather Have a Million Dollars, Or a New Car Every Three Years?
Would you drive a used car until you were 55 if someone would pay you a million dollars to do so? Understand this doesn't mean driving a junker - just driving ... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Why You Should Invest in Stocks
Personal finance begins with budgeting and controlling your money. You need to make sure you are spending less than you make, putting money away for future... Read more
Posted on 29 October 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Is Amazon’s Deal for the Needy a Good Thing?
Recently Amazon announced that they will offer Amazon Prime for a special discounted price for those on EBT cards: EBT card holders get Amazon Prime for $5.99... Read more
Posted on 28 October 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
How to Find A Broker and Start Investing
If you're interested in investing, you've probably spent some time looking at different websites and blogs on how to invest, and you've probably found several... Read more
Posted on 26 October 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
This Surprise Millionaire Wants You To Live A Long And Happy Life
The Surprise Millionaires Whenever I think I have discovered all of the interesting Surprise Millionaires out there, I discover another! While all of our... Read more
Posted on 25 October 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
The Small Investor Book Club Reviews Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing – Asset...
For our second book club book, I asked Small Investor readers to read The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing . This was really a great book. If you have not... Read more
Posted on 21 October 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
What NFL Players Can Really Do to Help the Inner-Cities
One has to wonder if the NFL players who are upsetting fans and driving down TV ratings ever took an economics class while they were in college. Perhaps then... Read more
Posted on 20 October 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Comparing Returns Against the Markets
This has definitely been a great time for stocks. Ever since the election in 2016, stocks have been heading up. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, an index... Read more
Posted on 18 October 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
The Small Investor Book Club Reviews Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing –...
Do you need a professional money manager? Chapter sixteen of The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing does a great job covering this question. A couple of months... Read more
Posted on 17 October 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
How to Fund Everything Without Filling Out Tax Forms
A while back, probably right after I'd finished filling out my income tax forms for 2010, I made a post about a tax idea called the Fair Tax. The beauty of... Read more
Posted on 13 October 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
What Can Whites Learn from Blacks? And Why Would It Help?
In an oped in our local newspaper, the writer stated that "white folks should learn to listen when black people speak." She then went onto gave her story of... Read more
Posted on 12 October 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
The Small Investor Book Club Reviews Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing
A couple of months ago I started The Small Investor Book Club, where we would read a book together and offer our thoughts in a later post. For our second book ... Read more
Posted on 10 October 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Why Health Insurance Isn’t Working
Health insurance is somewhat different from other forms of insurance. Really, what we call health insurance today is part insurance and part prepaid healthcare... Read more
Posted on 07 October 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Beware the Fed
There is an old axiom on Wall Street: "Don't fight the Fed." The Federal Reserve holds an enormous amount of power over the economy. While the President is... Read more
Posted on 03 October 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Is It Possible to Save for College?
About 16 years ago I sat down and predicted the growth of my son's college savings account. I was planning to put away $2,000 each year into an Educational... Read more
Posted on 01 October 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Dealing with Market Crashes
Let's face it - the market has been doing great lately. We've seen virtually everything go up during the last ten months or so, ever since the election. Talk... Read more
Posted on 30 September 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
The Surprise Hero AND Millionaire
The Surprise Millionaires A decorated army helicopter medic who served his country well left his adopted community quite a gift earlier this summer. The... Read more
Posted on 28 September 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Finding a Good Financial Advisor
I am not a financial advisor, as I say in my disclaimer - just an experienced investor willing to share from my experience. I also think that a lot of people... Read more
Posted on 26 September 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
How and When to Buy Dividend Paying Stocks
Utilities, which tend to pay high dividends and have a regulated monopoly, meaning that they have predictable earnings and rarely lose money, were once thought... Read more
Posted on 20 September 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Basic Charting Patterns in Stocks
I don't do a great deal with charting. While there are some who search through charts for price patterns, I've found that charting is useful for telling you... Read more
Posted on 16 September 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE