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Does an investment strategy need to be a high-flying, adrenaline-inducing circus act in order to be effective? Not quite. Each generation of Wall Street enthusiasts should take a step back now and then to study what has gone before. So it is with value investing, a strategy certainly popularized by Warren Buffett and his incredible [...]
For a generation of kids and young adults raised on the ubiquitous presence of Google, Facebook, Twitter, and the like, it’s hard to conceive of an Internet without the comforting (or Big Brotherish, depending on your perspective) presence of these titans. The truth is there’s a good chance we will have moved onto another way [...]
Wanna be a billionaire when you grow up? While we’re not foolish enough to make any promises, the chances are better now than they’ve ever been. Consider the following. Forbes.com just released its annual list of the world’s billionaires, and each year millions of us can’t help but peruse the names with a bit of [...]
If you’re not too impressed with the world of administrator directed IRA accounts, welcome to the club. More often than not, you can expect limited investment choices focused mainly on Wall Street stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Lately, the stock market has exhibited a dizzying tendency to take your portfolio for a roller coaster ride. [...]
Some day you’ll be all grown up, by present day standards this occurs some time after your 40th birthday, and you’re going to have to start thinking about where to live the rest of your life, geographically speaking. If, like some of us, you aren’t a carefree trust fund baby who never has to think [...]
Young adults should observe the financial disaster currently plaguing former professional basketball player Allen Iverson and learn from his mistakes. We’re talking serious mistakes. The kind of mistakes that lay waste to more than $200 million Iverson earned over the course of a 13+ year pro career. While there is no evidence that the player [...]
The website Investopedia lists 20 different types of investments you could make, though all are certainly not necessary in order to create financial independence. The problem in this world is that too many of us think we know something when all we really have is a loose grasp on the topic. The following information should [...]
They say there’s nothing new under the sun and everything comes around again. Perhaps nowhere is the truism of these statements seen more than in the growing number of young workers choosing to eschew the lure of the corporate world and dream of a corner office in exchange for a return to the land. But [...]
The government, Federal Reserve, Wall Street, and their willing accomplices in the media would have you believe that funding and maintaining a savings account is the way to get ahead in America. The scary truth is that those who fall for this line of government BS are doomed to a life of decreasing wealth. The [...]
Just because you’re young doesn’t mean you have to be stupid too. Whether or not the phrase “useful idiots” was ever actually uttered or written by Vladimir Lenin, former Communist revolutionary and first leader of the Soviet Union, is open to some debate. What isn’t in question is the susceptibility of the younger generation to [...]
