I can’t count the number of posts where I’ve professed my love for the S&P 500. The S&P 500 is an index created and maintained by Standard and Poor. It is a list of the 500 largest US publicly traded companies, along with their weight in the index. Weight is determined by the size (market […]
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In a few opinion post, I’ve explored media bias. It’s unfortunate that we cannot rely on a Google search or a news article being unbiased. Google may present something as fact when in actuality, it is a paid advertisement. Google may write this off as a software defect, but it still happened. Don’t believe me,
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There has been a lot of excitement about taxing the rich via a tax on unrealized gains. Check out this article from CNN here. The title says: Ignore Social Media? In general, I agree with this strategy. Social media is a breeding ground for misinformation. The CNN article is clear that the proposed legislation targets
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If you’re anything like me, you want to spend as little time on taxes as possible. There’s nothing worse than seeing a huge chunk of our paycheck each week going to pay Federal, State, Local (maybe), Social Security, and sometimes other taxes. Yuck! But taxes serve a purpose. It’s nice to see the poor folks
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This one’s really astounding. The different ways in which the left v. right media covered this is amazing. What Happened? I was reading Allsides today, and there is a story about Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband. I’m not going to hash through the details because it is disturbing, and you can read it here if
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Many of my posts tell a positive story. I talk about companies in which I’ve invested that have grown significantly. I talk about the wealth-building powers of compounding and the long-term gains of the S&P 500. The reason I focus on this is that with all the doom and gloom news, it’s easy to stick
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While we all celebrate our first Fed rate cut, and enjoy a robust stock market rally, don’t forget about plain old boring cash. Savings Account Interest When I was a kid, I would deposit my paper route money in my passbook savings account and I could depend on it growing at 5.25% each year. Pretty
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Enough with the personal finance and griping about media bias. Today, let’s just have some fun and a tasty meatball sandwich. I am a huge meatball sandwich fan. To me, there is nothing better than stumbling across a sub shop that has a meatball sub that will make your knees buckle. It doesn’t happen often,
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OK, not bye, bye, but I did sell some shares. Let’s talk about why. I don’t like to sell shares of the companies I own. I’m a big fan of letting my winners run. Apple, Amazon and Netflix have grown from small initial investments to huge portfolio holdings for me because they’ve performed so well.
At last week’s at Apple’s glow time event, Apple announced a few long-awaited hearing improvements. As usual, the event focused on the newest iPhone with camera and chip improvements, but tucked in between the usual announcements was a series of enhancements to address hearing loss. While it may not be the Apple hearing aid that
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