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It’s Because Investing Is So Important That We Get It So Wrong

Video game players share their knowledge with each other. Stock investors do not. Why not? Because no one wants to mess up when it comes to stock inv[...] read more »
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Sell Your House BEFORE Buying a New One

Look at homes you might want to buy, but be sure to sell AND close on your old home before you buy the new one. Then you can make a contingency free [...] read more »
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Financial Disinformation Is an All-or-Nothing Proposition

Look at the investing advice you see and hear? It’s Buy-and-Hold for breakfast, Buy-and-Hold for lunch and Buy-and-Hold at dinner. Why? Disinformatio[...] read more »
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How to Become a Part-time Entrepreneur

You can be a part time entrepreneur forever if that works for you! Then you'll have a business you can turn into full-time when ever you need it. read more »
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Do You Ever REALLY Own Your Home?

Have we traded the traditional virtues of homeownership for price appreciation and reduced income taxes? Have we given up too much in the process? read more »
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Nothing Brings Down the Savings Rate As Much as a Bull Market

Convince someone that he doesn’t need to save, and he won’t. Guess what a bull market does? It convinces millions of people that they don’t need to s[...] read more »
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Does College Prepare You for Self-Employment?

If you’re goal is to become self-employed, good old fashioned trial and error may be a better and cheaper education than going to college. Nothing be[...] read more »
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Preparing Your Financial Life for Self-Employment

If your're starting a new business first build a financial safety net, ready to catch you if you fall. And the best time to do that is before you ev[...] read more »
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The Crisis That Doesn’t Really Concern Anyone All That Much

Stocks became insanely overvalued in 1996. We kept buying. Our common sense told us there was going to be a price to pay. We ignored that. read more »
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The Health Insurance Adventures of an Entrepreneur

Our health insurance premiums increase with EVERY renewal--and each time we have to figure out how to cut the cost. Raise the deductible, drop covera[...] read more »
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How Big An Advance Is Valuation-Informed Indexing Investing?

Valuation-Informed Indexing is Buy-and-Hold 2.0. It’s the new Buy-and-Hold. It is Buy-and-Hold, New and Improved. That’s all it is. read more »
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10 Qualities of the Self-Employed Mindset

Mindset plays a bigger role in entrepreneurial success than anything--how you process and react will drive you forward even when there seems to be no[...] read more »
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How Much Can You Save by NOT Owning a Car?

Do you want to REALLY lower your cost of living for good? Ditch your car. No, I’m not kidding, ditch your car! You'll save thousands of dollars ea[...] read more »
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If Valuations Matter It Must Be Possible to Profit from This Reality

If you believe that having valuations helps you win at investing, you would invest in such a way as to have valuations on your side. That is, you wou[...] read more »
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Income Security VS Job Security – Does it Matter?

The biggest economic phenomena of our time is the end of job security. But we can gravitate toward it’s close cousin, income security. If we have inc[...] read more »
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