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
As you can tell from reading my posts, I’m pretty cheap. I love to save a buck and it kills me to pay more than I have to for something. If I can do it myself, I do. I’ve been cutting my own hair for 20 years. My buddies wouldn’t be surprised based both on
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As investors, our goal is to buy something, watch the value grow over a long period of time, and then sell it for (an enormous) profit. No amount of research and analysis can tell us which investments will grow over time, so we typically buy at least 20 or so investments or we invest in
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I’m 62 and retired. Paychecks stopped coming over 5 years ago. I took the leap and retired at 56, after doing quite a bit of analysis on expenses, growth projections, and likely market scenarios. It seemed like there was a high probability that I could retire comfortably and my job just wasn’t that much fun
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While I write quite a bit about stocks, I continue to invest in, and advocate for, an investment in a nice low-cost S&P 500 fund. It’s Sunday morning, I have a cup of coffee and I am reading the 10-K for Arista Networks. OK, it’s a hundred pages, I’m not reading, I’m skimming and focusing
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Yes, please! I’ve written quite a bit about dividends and dividend paying stocks. I am optimistic about the long-term prospects for the US economy and for the S&P 500. I know there will be blips along the way, but overall, I expect an investment in the S&P 500 will build wealth in the long term.
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There are quite a few people who avoid investing altogether because of the wild gyrations of the market. To some, the market seems like a casino. I’d be better off putting my money on red and spinning. It’s hard to argue against this when just this year, we’ve seen the Dow gain or lose over
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It’s Friday May 9. It’s been a wild year to date in the market and I had a long drive today so I have a few thoughts. The S&P 500 Performance The S&P 500 has largely recovered from the belly-flop that started on Liberation Day. As you may recall, this is when the initial tariff