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Overcoming Fear in Investing
Fortunes have been made by the mastery of fear, and lost by the failure to heed, or to control fear.
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The Rules of the Game
We’d just like to refer visitors to an excerpt from a lecture given by Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. Ms. Shlaes references the game of Monopoly and how it relates to …
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Buffett’s Tips for New Investors
I once had the opportunity to hear the Oracle of Omaha speak in person at a Utilities conference. I was enthralled by his remarkably simple wisdom. If there’s one thing that makes Buffett who he is, it’s his ability to …
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Credit Crisis- As if you hadn’t heard enough.
I know this is a tired, tired story, but if you have any interest at all in re-living last year’s credit collapse, this is a nice way to do it. http://jonathanjarvis.com/crisis-of-credit It is a master visual compilation and explanation of …
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mint.com
The advent of screen-scraping technology has caused for a revolution in budgeting. If you’ve ever wanted to track your expenses closely or monitor your net-worth in a way that doesn’t require hours and hours of data entry, you might want …
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Exports to the Rescue?
Wells Capital Economist Jim Paulsen has been making some interesting comments about where he sees potential for GDP growth in coming years: the U.S. trade balance. In its simplest terms, his thoughts are that the United States’ binge on cheap …
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Turning a Corner?
The New York Times created a marvelous interactive chart which tracks the economy and leading economic indicators through the business cycle since 1970. Not only is it interesting to see the interaction between the two over the past 40 years, …
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International Investing: A Staple for the Future
We recently attended a conference where we heard from Victor Canto of La Jolla Economics. The title of his speech was “Around the World in 90 Days.” His discussion centered on investment opportunities in emerging economies. In its most simple …