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• How to Grow Rich Slowly

  

  Everyone has seen the late night advertisements. There is a guy standing in a large backyard by a sky-blue pool with tropical flowers and a large stucco-roofed... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• The Stock Price is All About the Dividend (Even When They Don’t Pay One)

  

  A couple of years ago I got into a lengthy discussion of stock pricing with a reader. Unfortunately the exchange ended up being by email (I’d much rather reader... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Should You Invest a Lump Sum All at Once?

  

  There was an interesting article in Money magazine this month about dollar cost averaging. Typically, this is where you would buy investments at regular... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• It’s Not the Individual Choices – It’s the Habits

  

  I’m still making my way through Darren Hardy’s The Compound Effect. One of the things I’m beginning to understand is that it isn’t the individual choices we mak... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• How to Figure Out How Much You Need to Retire

  

  Early on, when we first started planning for financial independence, one of the first things we needed to determine was how much we would need to accumulate to... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• The Small Investor Book Club Update

  

  For the SmallIvy Book Club we’re reading The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy this month. At the end of the month I’ll write about my impressions and let everyon... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Teaching Children How to Be Wealthy

  

  We learn most of our financial knowledge from our parents and usually have similar spending habits. Unfortunately, money and sex are both subjects that are... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2017 FAMILY

• What Small Decisions Do You Make

  

  Last week I announced the formation of The Small Investor virtual book club. Each month we’ll have an investing or personal finance book to read. This month... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Is It Worth It to Put Money Away for College?

  

  Most of the time it feels good to live a financially stable life, which is where we are after spending the last 20 years doing things like buying used cars, a... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• The Small Investor Book Club

  

  They say that one characteristic of successful people is that they read a non-fiction book a month. I was thinking that it would be neat to start doing this,... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• What’s Wrong with the Healthcare Market?

  

  I was thinking the other day about the American healthcare system and why it doesn’t seem to function like the other markets. I mean, there is really no issue... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Getting on the Path to a Carefree Retirement

  

  Getting ready for retirement should be the easiest thing there is. After all, you have about 45 to 50 years to get ready. Yet there is something about a goal... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Ten Things I Learned While Working for the Rich

  

  I read a great article from Free Money Finance on the things he learned about how rich people handle money while working as a financial adviser to... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• A Tax System for a Productive Society

  

  As President Trump rolled out his tax plan, one area that corresponds with his campaign promises is a cut in the corporate tax rate. During the campaigns he sai... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Buy on the Rumor, Sell on the News

  

  There’s an old saying in Wall Street that you should “Buy on the rumor, then sell on the news.” The meaning is that when you start to hear that something is... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Taking Advantage Of Stock Weakness

  

  Interesting post from Girlvestor below. This shows the issue with trading based on news. I’m sure many people heard about the United Airlines treatment of... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• How Does a Mutual Fund Investing Work

  

  Continuing the series of posts on different aspects of finance to help provide the basic financial background needed to be successful financially in life,... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Why You Really Need to Invest

  

  You’ll find a lot of blogs on people getting out of debt. Perhaps they start out with a student loan balance of $150,000 and pay it off over a period of three... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• How to Never Need to Keep Tax Records Again

  

  So today is tax day in America yet again. Sometime in the last few months you probably had to gather your receipts, W-2 forms, and 1099’s. You had to buy some... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Why Are Republicans Afraid of Free Market Healthcare?

  

  The United States has fantastic healthcare. We have all of the latest machines and gadgets. You can get in and see a doctor often the same day, but certainly... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2017 BUSINESS, FINANCE