This is my 2nd post today. My earlier post was Get Angry. So now it’s time to take a deep breath or 2 and relax. I moved on to financial news and found yet another reason to be optimistic about the S&P 500. And for those who’ve forgotten, the S&P 500 is a stock market […]
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Everybody’s angry. Whether it’s the latest round of tariffs, the rising national debt, or the Bezos wedding, the news and social media are filled with outrage. I’m not active on social media, but I’ve heard stories. If we’re into politics, there are unlimited stories on both left and right leaning media sites to get our
Pick one. Which would you choose? Let me back up and explain how I arrived at this question. Allergies My 9 year old Blue Heeler Rosco, has skin allergies. Several times a year, he breaks out with a hot spot and starts licking to beat the band. Next thing we know he’s swollen and bleeding.
Past performance is no guarantee of future returns. We see this, or words to that effect in every mutual fund perspective or almost any investment advertisement. Why? It’s the law. It’s meant to protect investors like us. Read more here from thebalance.com Can be Helpful… I appreciate that the good folks at The Balance included
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My wife and I are financially independent. We live in an average home, in an average town, and we take an occasional vacation. Last winter we spent a week in Key Largo. The prior year, we spent 3 days in the Red Roof Inn (near) Newport, RI off of a highway with a striking view
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Whether we’re invested in individual stocks or we hold some nice low-cost mutual funds and ETF’s (read more about mutual funds here), today, 6/21/2025, we’re pretty pleased. The S&P 500 is within spitting distance of all-time highs. I’m not sure that “spitting distance” is a precise measure, but the point is we’re pretty darn close.
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In his book One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market, Peter Lynch tells lots of stories about how to recognize great businesses and how to choose investments. One of my favorite stories in the book is about how Lynch noticed the L’eggs eggs all
My earlier post this week was about adding more solar panels and a couple of batteries to my system. I initially installed solar in 2023, and it was so effective, that I decided to expand my system. Why Solar? Even with the 30% tax credit, solar is expensive. My original system cost $29,000 out of
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Americans love credit cards, loans and buy-now-pay-later. Don’t believe me? Check this out. Housing debt makes sense to me. We need a place to live and houses are expensive. But the non-housing debt is worrisome. It’s increasing pretty rapidly. Let’s take a look at some household debt numbers from the Motley Fool. And some trend
A year or so ago, I wrote a couple of posts about solar. In the first, I described my experience in adding roof-top solar panels. In the 2nd, I reviewed my experience investing in some solar businesses. I continue to be quite interested in solar. To me, it makes sense to be able to generate
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