Saturdays with Jim: The Best Guarantee You’ll Get
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The closest thing an investor can find to a guarantee lies in two simple concepts:
• Make purchases when there is "blood on the streets"
• Buy only those investments that fit temperament and need
In short, to get the best guarantee an investor m...
• Make purchases when there is "blood on the streets"
• Buy only those investments that fit temperament and need
In short, to get the best guarantee an investor m...
Saturdays with Jim: The Happiest Income Source
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A bolt of excitement flashes through me every time I contribute to my 401(k) plan because I think that with each $100 of contribution I am buying $10 of income this year which will grow to $20 in 7 years and to $40 in 14 years. And reinvesting the...
Saturdays with Jim: The Bear Had No Claws
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Analysis of an Income Strategy January 2008 through March 2010
Bear markets which by definition drop 20% or more from a previous high wreak havoc on just about everything. The Mighty Bear of 2007-2009 was no exception. Market prices of everything ...
Bear markets which by definition drop 20% or more from a previous high wreak havoc on just about everything. The Mighty Bear of 2007-2009 was no exception. Market prices of everything ...
Saturdays with Jim: Trade and Profit or Recovery?
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Investing is about trade and profit, right? If you scratch the surface a bit, you find that strict adherence to trade and profit by always trying to maximize profit and return may actually lead to ruin. In fairness, hiding under a bed with a wad o...
Saturdays with Jim: Game Changers
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The signals are flashing that we are facing a future which looks substantially different than our past of 10, 20 and 30 years. Today, we want to discuss some of the forces of change at work that we may form an intelligent view of, as Jeremy Siegel...
Saturdays with Jim: Public Debt Blues
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Mr. Keynes (John Maynard), your "general theory" of money, interest rates and economy is in full bloom. That is, to counteract the hugely deflationary effects of dramatically lowered private consumption (compared to the spendthrift boom years) gov...
Saturdays with Jim: To Risk or Not to Risk
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It's not a question of whether to take risks but which risks you want to embrace, avoid or transfer/mitigate. Let me explain.
Suppose you have a chance to go skydiving. You decide against it because you "don't like the risk." You assess that the ...
Suppose you have a chance to go skydiving. You decide against it because you "don't like the risk." You assess that the ...
Saturdays with Jim: Navigating High Interest Rate
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Investors rightfully focus on the "money market" to provide clues to guide investment placement. A modern economy needs money to flow freely in order to grow. Such things as interest rates, money supply and velocity of money are vital to a well fu...
Saturdays with Jim: A Suitcase Full of Parachutes
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The act of retirement can be likened to jumping out of a plane into a sky dive. You want to have a robust main parachute but if it fails you want to have alternative means to slow your descent.
The person about to retire has usually spent some t...
The person about to retire has usually spent some t...
Saturdays with Jim: Avoid Doing Something Stupid
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Investing can bring out our multiple character traits, exemplified by Alfred E. Neuman (What, me worry?) and Joe Btfsplk, the jinx character in Andy Capp's Li'l Abner, who perennially sported his very own rain and thunder cloud above his head. But...
