There are all kinds of discount brokerages out there – and for the most part, they’re all just fine. If it lets you buy stocks and keeps your dividends organized, it’s alright by me. But when it comes to a service based business like a brokerage, there are other things that you might want to [...]
If you haven’t automated your finances, go ahead and start out on that track. make sure that a percentage of what you make goes into an emergency fund, which should generally be either a savings account, a money market account, or a bond with no penalty for early withdrawal. It would be a truly rare [...]
This is going to be a brief course on a few things you might want to consider, if you should happen to go into investing in rental properties. It can be a rough and gritty business, and the odds of making an immediate profit are extremely slim. But over the long term, it is a [...]
Let’s brain storm for a moment, shall we? If you were a leader of economic policy, would you consider it to be better or worse for your nation’s citizens if the price of a standard home were to raise, or lower? This question has the potential for a lot of depth to its answer. If [...]
For those of you who have money to invest, after this extremely tough economic recession we have been through and are still in, how did you do it? Never mind, I will not really expect you to answer that question. I really am supposed to be giving you tips on how to invest your money. [...]
This is the first in a series I’ll be doing on my personal real estate exploits. For the purposes of privacy (and in order to lessen the likelihood of being sued), names will not be used unless absolutely necessary. And of course, every name will be changed. About 8 months ago, I agreed to get [...]
If you’re just a day trader, don’t waste your time with this article. This is for us buy and hold types.
Back when I took kung fu, there was this guy in the class who was always saying things like, “Our teacher can kick the really BIG ass.” Okay, I was that guy…
For the past ten years, a trend has been slowly brewing in the skies above our lackluster bond returns and near-zero field of stocks. This trend has the potential to change the world, in a way that all the tree hugging and all the car pooling and all the peace rallies never could.
