Should You Fear U.S. Treasury Bonds?
#Investing #MindsetI have received a number of emails from people, asking what I think of the United States reaching its debt ceiling —and the probability of the…
Did My Friend's Investment Advisor Add Value?
#Advisors #InvestingThe best thing about keeping a financial blog is the interactions I’m able to have with informed readers. I’m going to ask for your…
Psst! Wanna Be a Better Investor? Then don't follow the stock market or the economy!
#Mindset #InvestingI’m going to let you in on a secret! It’s going to sound like a strange claim, but nobody who understands how the stock…
Something to Think About… if you really can’t buy index funds - Part 3
#Index Funds #InvestingMarket-Beating Guru Adds Another Strategy…With Index Funds This Time Financial literature is littered with scores of material claiming to show how average investors can beat…
Something to think about… if you really can’t buy index funds – Part 2
#Index Funds #InvestingPlenty of people refuse to buy index funds. They feel that they can invest with individual stocks, and beat 90 percent of investment professionals—on their…
Something to think about… if you really can’t buy index funds - Part 1
#Index Funds #InvestingMy friend, Jeff, can’t buy index funds. It has nothing to do with their lack of accessibility; he just can’t bring himself to do…
The International Teachers Nine Steps to Financial Freedom For Americans
#Investing #Expat Investing“The International Teacher’s Nine Steps to Financial Freedom” has been included as a chapter in a book about wellness for teachers, but it does have…
A narcotics accusation, a cryogenic chamber and a single stock: Reloaded
#Andrew's Money #InvestingTwo years ago, I gave my readers a challenge: To pick a stock that they’d hold for the next 80 years. This is how I…
ETF Investing, Frogs, and Boiling Pots of Water
#Mindset #InvestingI take it, from a two hundred year old source–however unreliable it may be–that a frog dropped in a pot of boiling water will…
Can You Beat the Market With Dividend Paying Stocks?
#Index Funds #InvestingAs most of my regular readers know, my investments are comprised of index funds. I don’t own individuals stocks. But I used to. And many…