Interesting headline from a guy who recently posted IF YOUR EQUITY INVESTMENTS HAVEN’T GAINED 24% IN 2024, YOU NEED TO MAKE SOME CHANGES. The post in question was the result of a discussion with a friend who was lamenting lackluster performance in his retirement account. The S&P 500 has been up more than 20% in […]
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Just a quick one today, but it’s been on my mind with all the craziness in the news lately. I expect that many readers, like me, are frustrated with the stalemate in our country today. We are well into the US Government shutdown with no end in sight. Take any issue, and there is a
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My wife has been shopping Ocean State Job Lot for years. It’s a cool store, but it doesn’t have the same stuff all the time – at least in the hardware section, so I tend to skip it. The draw for many is the treasure-hunt aspect – you never know what they’ll have. Reminiscent of
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To be honest, my relationship is largely hate, but there is some love. Last year, I wrote a post called Do I Need A Financial Advisor. And while, for me, the answer to the question is a resounding NO!, in the post, I talk about 2 situations where it might make sense to have an
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I’ve written a bit about car buying, here and here. To many people, buying a car tops their list of things they hate most. I understand why. There’s the pressure, the negotiation, the air of superiority many salesman have… Not fun. I worked for a car dealership that wouldn’t negotiate price. Many people found that
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In my recent post, What Does a Government Shutdown Mean to Me?, I talked a little bit about how the threat of a shutdown, and even an actual shut down, are becoming routine. But we forget that the shutdown is a colossal failure of our politicians to do their job and come up with a
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Bet you thought this was about me retiring and forcing my spouse to bring home the bacon. Nice idea, but no. This is even better. This morning I was reading clark.com. Clark is one of my favorite cheapskates. I subscribe to his daily email which has saving ideas and deals. Here’s one: But anyway, back
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Nothing better than a good “I told you so…” So let’s take a quick victory lap this morning. And while we enjoy that, we can also talk about the lesson learned here. Disney Yup, it’s Disney. A couple of weeks ago, I posted Is Disney a Great Company? I sold my shares a while back,
It seems like just yesterday we had avoided a government shut down by the skin of our teeth. I tried to find when the last one was. I saw this from December 2024 where we narrowly avoided a shut down. But I’m pretty sure we went through this fire drill at least one other time
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Today, with a government shut-down looming (and we still have tariff uncertainty, wars in the Ukraine and Gaza, and other assorted problems) the market continues to rise and today I read that: in the Daily Upside. In the almost 2 years that I’ve been posting here, I’ve spent a bit more time paying attention to
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