It’s in the high 90’s here in Central MA and it’s too hot to be outside, so I’ve been spending some time with my spreadsheets. Boy, I hope it cools off soon…anyway, I decided to take a look at my investment performance over the years. While overall I’ve done well, there are some definite patterns […]
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Who doesn’t love tractors – right? That’s how I became a John Deere (ticker: DE) investor. At least, that’s how it started. Read on to see how I decided to buy shares and how I revisited my opinion on Deere this morning. Technology I like technology. I was the first person I knew who had
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As a follow-up to last week’s post on buying hearing aids, I wanted to update folks on my experience with hear.com. I received my $4,250 credit from my return. Background Quick background: I wanted to try some alternative hearing aids and hear.com came up often in my research. I took on online hearing test, and
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I’ve been looking at the jobs numbers for March and I have more questions than answers. I know, not a good opening line, but hopefully it generates some thoughts and discussion. Reading the news, we get a very conflicted story about the economy, inflation and job growth. Inflation A wrote a post recently on inflation
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Checking, Savings, High Yield, Money Market, Treasuries…so many choices, which one is right? In today’s post we’ll talk about the different options for low to no risk places to put our cash. And spoiler alert…no one product is the right one. You’ll likely have a mix of several products to maximize your income while preserving
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I use the term conviction quite a bit when I talk about evaluating companies. Before I choose to invest my hard earned money a company, I want to have conviction, but what does that mean? According to dictionary.com, conviction is a fixed or firm belief. It’s the act of convincing a person by argument or
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Something a little different for today…I’m in the process of buying new hearing aids – Yawn. There are lots of options out there so I wanted to share what I’ve learned. For those who read the original post. This post has now been updated with info on the Lexie B2 Plus powered by Bose. Do
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I’ve talked about inflation in a number of posts, but we’ve never really gone into what inflation is, what causes it and why it’s so difficult to correct, and most importantly, what can we do about it. I’ve done a bit of reading this morning to try and get a better understanding myself so I
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In many of my posts, I’ve discussed low-cost S&P 500 mutual funds and ETFs. Today we’ll take a look at what we’re actually getting when we buy shares. Saddle-up. What is the S&P 500? The S&P 500 is a stock index. There are many indices available. The S&P 500 is a very popular one. Investment
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I read a fabulous article this morning titled This is how much money you’d have made if you bought Apple shares instead of a new iPhone every time it was released. Here. The article says: “If you had bought Apple shares worth of every new iPhone model on Apple event day from 2007 , you
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