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• 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

• Going to Bars to Drink is Foolish

  

  Money had an article called Here’s How Rich You’d Be if You Stopped Drinking that peaked my interest last weekend. I thought that maybe they were going to look... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Read The SmallIvy Book of Investing for Free

  

  The SmallIvy Book of Investing, Book 1: Investing to Grow Wealthy When I wrote The SmallIvy Book of Investing Book 1: Investing to Grow Wealthy, I wanted to... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• The Role Income Stocks and Bonds Play in a Portfolio

  

  Income stocks and other assets have a place in your portfolio during certain stages of your life, generally when you need income or stability. Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Sold My Shares of Oasis Petroleum Today

  After holding them for about a year, I sold my last shares of Oasis Petroleum today. Normally I’m fairly reluctant to sell shares of stock after I have bought... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• How to Identify a Growth Stock

  

  As discussed in the last post, growth stocks are stock in companies that are growing rapidly. They tend to be young companies, or companies that have gone... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Why Young People Should Buy Mainly Growth Stocks

  

  In what I call serious investing, the main type of stocks that would be purchased when one is young, loosely defined as age 12 to maybe 45, would be growth... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• There Are No Fairy Godmothers

  

  About a week ago we went and saw the newest remake of Cinderella, the fairytale where a girl who has lost her parents and is forced to live as a servant for... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• How M.U.L.E. Will Make You Wealthy

  

  Does anyone else remember the game M.U.L.E.? The term was an acronym for Multiple Use Labor Unit in an Atari game from 1983. In the game you would deploy your... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• It’s Time to Insist on More Reasonable College Costs

  I always hear about the crushing cost of student loans, and I hear about the need for loan forgiveness, but I never hear anyone wanting to do something about th... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• How to Save on Taxes When Selling Stocks

  

  Do not make taxes a primary reason for buying, holding, or selling a stock. Let me say that again. Do not make taxes a primary reason for buying, holding, or... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• This is Future You Speaking

  

  Greetings from the future. This is a message to you from you at age 72. I just wanted to thank you for the little things you did while you were young (or... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE

• Why Would You Not Want the Fair Tax

  

  Under my bed is a cardboard box that is bulging at the seams. I contains my stock purchase/sales slips and my tax returns for the last 25 years or so. Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2015 BUSINESS, FINANCE