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• What is Value Investing?

  

  The two most popular investing strategies for picking stocks are value investing and momentum investing. You’ve probably seem mutual funds with these terms in... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Simple Steps to Making 401Ks Better

  

  My broker feels that 401Ks – the retirement plans that have largely replaced pensions – are a terrible idea and that most people would be better off in a... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• The Good and Bad of Adding Fiduciary Duty

  

  I was talking to my broker the other day about the changes that are coming for individual retirement accounts. The biggest change is that brokers and others... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• A Different Plan for Those at the Bottom

  

  Welfare was started in an effort to lift those in desperate poverty up to the level where they had the necessities of life, such as food and clothing. Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Are Teacher Salaries Actually Low?

  

  I was reading an excellent guest post in the blog So Over Debt. The post is excellent in that it recommends things like not going into huge amounts of student... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• What, Me Worry? The Best Mindset to Have When Investing.

  

  Perhaps the greatest obstacle we have when investing is our own mindset. Our psychology acts against us, preventing us from doing the right things at the right... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Why I’m Not a Fan of “Free” Stuff

  

  This election you have a lot of people talking about “free” things. Free healthcare. Free college. Surely free food and clothing should be coming soon since the... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• A Financial Checklist for Your New Job

  

  Congratulations on getting your first job. I know that college was a lot of late hours, then the whole job search was exhausting. You probably thought... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• To Sell Or Not to Sell

  

  About two years ago, my broker called me up to do a portfolio analysis. At the conclusion, he decided that I was doing well, but was concentrated in the area... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Start an IRA Today (If Not Sooner)

  

  How would you like to retire a millionaire? Well, if you’re a teen working a summer job and you put $1000 away into an IRA (Individual Retirement Account) today... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Six Simple Rules of Financial Literacy

  

  Handling your finances need not be that difficult. In fact, you can simply practice some basic behaviors and end up far better off than your peers. These... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Hillary Comes Clean on Free College

  

  Dear Young Voter, You may have recently heard that I have joined Bernie Sanders in calling for “free” public college for all students. Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• How to Choose Individual Stocks

  

  There is some pretty good advice that says people shouldn’t bother with individual stock picking. Instead, they should just accept the fact that they cannot... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Want a Better Financial Life? Stop What You’re Doing.

  

  Everybody comes from a different economic and social background. Some are born to loving parents who dote on them. Some are born to parents who give them... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• How Women Can Earn as Much as Men

  

  I’m sure you’ve all heard the statistics. “Women make only 77 cents per dollar that a man makes.” Of course, the same articles will point out that this is in... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• What Should You Do with Your Stocks Because of the Brexit?

  

  About a week ago, we woke up with a new word, Brexit, and everyone was all a twitter about it. People who had never given a thought about the small island off o... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Don’t Just Budget – Develop a Cash-Flow Plan

  

  If you want to become wealthy, you need to manage money like wealthy people do. As Robert Kiyosaki explains in his book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, people who are... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• How to Set-up Your 401K When You’re 50

  

  Because of a bit of a reshuffle at work with a new employer coming in, I’ve found myself helping a lot of people in their fifties and early sixties set-up a... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• How to Not Lose Money When Investing, Part 2

  

  In the last post we talked about how you can use bonds to provide a steady income and to provide stability while using stocks to participate in the markets and... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• How to Not Lose Money When Investing, Part 1

  

  Ever see those ads where you can invest and get returns from the stock market, but you’re guaranteed to never lose money and wonder how they could offer such a... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2016 BUSINESS, FINANCE