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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 ( 1003 )
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The SmallIvy Book of Investing More Than 30% Off
The SmallIvy Book of Investing, Book 1 BUY A COPY The SmallIvy Book of Investing, Book 1: Investing to Grow Wealthy is on sale for more than 30% off the origina... Read more
Posted on 28 June 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Want to Start Investing? Change Your Mindset from Saving
Investing requires you think differently than you did when you were saving money. With saving you can predict exactly how much money you will have in the future. Read more
Posted on 28 June 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
How Start a 401K
So you’ve just started the new job and the HR department handed you a form to start a 401K account. Many people miss the old pension systems where all you did... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Stock Trading, Spectulating, and Investing
Today I wanted to discuss the differences among trading, speculating, and investing. Investing, the topic to which this blog is dedicated, is the allocation of... Read more
Posted on 24 June 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Auto Parts Industry Looking Up
Sometimes I get an issue of Value Line and one of the industrial sectors strikes me because there are a lot of companies in that industry that have high... Read more
Posted on 22 June 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Eliminate Tips? Only If You’re A Bad Server
People in the customer service industry, such as food servers, have the ability to affect their pay through the level of service they provide. Read more
Posted on 21 June 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
$8 Bottles of Water? Really?
$8 Bottles of Water Last week we stayed at a hotel in San Antonio, right next to the Alamo. It is a great walking town with the River Walk, Children’s museum,... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Why Carry Buckets Until You Retire When You Can Invest?
Are you a bucket carrier? Do you work hard each day, being convinced that the only way to make money is to work hard, and yet end up each month with little to... Read more
Posted on 16 June 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
If You Need Cash in Retirement, Sell Your Home and Downgrade. Skip the Reverse...
The pitch for reverse mortgages goes like this: “Need a little extra cash for daily expenses, travel, and prescriptions? Use the equity in your home. Call... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Cyclical Stocks, Or How To Make Money By Really, Really Trying
Normally I talk about how to make money in the market – a way of investing I call “Serious Investing.” Serious investing takes very little effort because you bu... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Finding Stocks That Will Do Well Over The Long Term
Stock picking is more of an art than a science. Just as a good chef will put in “just enough” wine into a dish or know when something “looks done” a good stock... Read more
Posted on 10 June 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Looking for an ETF? Take a Look at the Vanguard Family of ETFs
Exchange Traded Funds, or (ETFs) are a great way for investors to diversify their money from their regular brokerage account. Today I thought I’d discuss a grea... Read more
Posted on 08 June 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Pay Off Your Children’s College Loans for $120 Per Month
Today in a few of the news reports I listened to some testimony on student loan debt and the impact it has on young people trying to start their lives. Read more
Posted on 05 June 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
How to Reduce Your Family Food Costs
To grow wealthy, it is critical to cut expenses enough to provide money for regular investing. You really need to have at least $300-$500 each month to put... Read more
Posted on 04 June 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Finding the Intrinsic Value of a Stock. Using Earnings and PE to Predict Future...
(Note, this is a repeat of a popular post from a few years ago. This post was received so favorably that I decided to repost it in case newer readers hadn’t... Read more
Posted on 01 June 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
What Are ETFs and How To Invest with ETFs
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are a great way for investors to diversify their money from their regular brokerage account. (The alternative would be to have a... Read more
Posted on 29 May 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Please, Please, Please Get Out of Bonds
On a good day, bonds underperform stocks. On a bad day, when interest rates start to rise, fixed income assets fall because of the rising rates, and companies... Read more
Posted on 28 May 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
The Airlines Are Gouging You. Let Them Know You Know.
As anyone who reads this blog knows, I’m a big free enterprise advocate. Still, there are certain businesses where free enterprise just isn’t working, or perhap... Read more
Posted on 26 May 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Save for College, Or Face Reality. There is No Magic Money Fairy.
This story really shocked and amazed me. A couple in Massachusettes racked up more than $500,000 in student loans by putting three kids through college using... Read more
Posted on 24 May 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Italian Cod with Sauteed Vegetables
So why does a financial blog have a post on cooking? A big part of growing wealthy is living on less than you make. A big expense that a lot of people have is... Read more
Posted on 22 May 2014 BUSINESS, FINANCE