There are times when you have money and times when you don’t. Sometimes you have actual cash, perhaps in the bank, but shouldn’t spend it. Sometimes you have excess cash that you should do something with. In this article I am going to discuss cash management issues that could pop up that you may want… Read More »
Taylor Swift is currently worth around $360 million and is the owner of 8 homes in the United States. Just how many homes does a person need? Ok, perhaps she is doing an AirB2B with them or something, I don’t know. But if she just owns them to stay in them temporarily, she is incurring… Read More »
It is much easier to value a profitable company than an unprofitable one. Generally a company’s profit is its value to the shareholders. Of course, you could look at assets of a company in relation to its market cap. If assets are bigger, the company may be undervalued. Ok, so if profit is generally the… Read More »
The unemployment rate is up. Dividends are down. Some companies are declaring bankruptcy. But the stock market is roaring. Make sense? The market will correct in a big way. It’s coming. I don’t know when, and that’s not important. Here is what you can do to be ready. If You Are Within Five Years Of… Read More »
You could say that I am a business owner. I have my own corporation that does technology consulting for other companies. There is a problem with it though: I am my only employee. I trade my time for money. It is not the ideal business. So what is an ideal business and how do we… Read More »
You can be financially independent if you like. That may seem like a pretty big elephant at this point, but it is certainly possible. Now, you could be financially independent by owning rental units and bringing in more than you spend. You could sell your time or effort for money, similar to a job, but… Read More »
As much as I like the challenge of writing a daily blog post, I think it is time to scale back a little. I am going to write just one per week from now on, likely on Mondays. I am seriously just running out of interesting things to write about within the focused investing realm.… Read More »
I like to begin with the end in mind. So generally, I save and invest for retirement. I do have a regular brokerage account but that is savings for my kinds, our savings is in IRAs and 401(k)s. Not to say that having a regular brokerage account is a bad idea. You can always buy… Read More »
I mean that both literally and perhaps not so literally. There will be time when market value will decline and your gain will be negative. There will also be times when you want to sell a loser, and have a good reason. The hope is that overall your stock portfolio will gain, in time, much… Read More »
It seems like nobody believes me. The market can only go up right? If you believe that, the top 1% in wealth will get your stock market investment. Why? Because it doesn’t feel good to “lose money”. I quote that because I mean market value. Most novice investors will sell like crazy when the market… Read More »