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• Why Are So Many Children in the US Hungry?

  

  I’m always perplexed when I read statistics like 15.3 million children under the age of 18 do not have adequate access to enough food in their homes. Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Before You Invest, Do Critical Savings

  

  Investing is exciting. You’re putting money into your future. Your dreams. Your retirement. Your financial security. Values can change rapidly, so you could... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Making Your Own Freezer Waffles – Chocolate Waffles

  

  If you can cook at home from scratch, you can save a lot of money. One thing that is easy to make is freezer waffles, also known as toaster waffles. Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Setting Up Your Personal Cash Flow to Grow Wealthy

  

  Cash flow is how money comes into your hands, flows through your bank account, and then goes elsewhere. It used to be that you would get a check, deposit it in... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Finding Money to Invest in Your Budget

  

  You may say that you want to climb Mt. Everest, but if you don’t spend the time learning mountaineering, get yourself in top physical condition, and start savin... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• How to Get Started in Investing – The Steps

  

  So you’ve just started a new job, or you’ve been working for a while and are tired of seeing all of the money you earn just disappear into the ether. You’re... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Why Socialism and Communism Are Fundamentally Evil

  

  A while back I wrote about why Capitalism is fundamentally good. This doesn’t mean that everyone engaged in Capitalism is good, just that it is based on... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Friday Night Poetry

  

  Copy This Poem Take this poem and copy it and send it to everyone you know, For I want it to live. I want it to continue to exist long after the world has... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Do You Think We’re in a Bear Market? I Don’t Know – Do You Think a Hurricane Wil...

  

  When people find out that I know quite a bit about investing, they inevitably come to me during times like last week and ask me whether I think we’re heading... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Getting Health Insurance Out of Healthcare

  

  Most everyone loves their healthcare. Talk to most people and they’ll tell you that they like their doctor. They like their dentist, too, even though they may... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• How to Invest in an REIT

  

  Dear SmallIvy, I am writing to you in the hope of getting some advise. I have been for months trying to get a REIT, to contact a REIT, to invest $20,000 that I... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Friday Night Poetry

  

  Squirrel World Years ago I watched your great-grandparents leap from tree branch to tree branch when we moved into our home. As our children were born, so were... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Investing for Income with Rising Interest Rates?

  With interest rates set to rise, income investors – those who invest in bonds and dividend paying stocks to generate income for life expenses – are justifiably... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• How Do Interest Rates Affect Bonds?

  After years of keeping rates at 0%, the Federal Reserve is talking about raising rates this year. Because the economy remains extremely weak, mainly due to... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• From Where Does The Money for Long Paid Maternity Love Come?

  

  I was reading an interesting commentary in Yahoo Parenting called “The Real War on Families: Why the U.S. Needs Paid Leave Now. Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• More Friday Night Poetry

  

  The Red and Gray Ship of Bodego Bay Once out on Bodego Bay, There was a ship of red and gray Which sailed from the dawn ‘til night, Equally balanced, left and... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Are We in a Correction Or a Bear Market?

  

  This is actually a repeat from a post I made about five years ago – the last time we saw a big correction. Once again, however, we’re seeing people misuse the... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Are You Holding An Asset from Sentimentality

  

  Sentimentality is a powerful emotion. My family laughed when I insisted we pass by the home I grew up in not once, but twice the last time I went back to my hom... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Don’t Panic!!!!

  

  Don’t Panic! Any fan of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy knows that those calming words are scrolled across the face of the Hitchhiker’s guide to bring... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Friday Night Poetry

  

  Impulse Buying In your cart: A dozen bananas, very ripe, A Clancy Novel, large print type, A dozen eggs, spare cribbage pegs, some markers – blues and blacks,... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE