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Note: This post was originally written in March 2008 (before the, ahem, “problems”), but I’ve updated it slightly for today’s conditions. It’s amazing that when I originally wrote how to predict the stock market, it was contrarian advice, and a few commentators took me to task on my semi-prediction that double-digit returns couldn’t continue. What’s [...] Read more »
A few years ago I went on a cruise to the islands with my wife, Bubelah. We decided to stop in the casino briefly one evening, even though neither of us are gamblers – I generally find it boring and she generally doesn’t understand it. It was ‘formal night’ on the cruise, which for you [...] Read more »
The owner of a successful small business in his hometown had two sons. The younger son asked one day if the father could lend (really give) him a substantial amount of money. The father, being the trusting sort, gave him the money without asking why he needed it. The younger son took off for a [...] Read more »
A few years ago when I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, the concept of passive income lit my brain on fire. I had never thought of the idea of making money for nothing. I assumed that money was achieved only due to the hard-pressed exchange of time for filthy lucre. Kiyosaki, the author of RDPD, [...] Read more »
The American job market is fairly grim, and one of the hardest aspects of unemployment in the new millennium is the length of time workers are going without a job. According to a recent Labor Department study reported in the New York Times, the average length of unemployment has now surged to approximately 40 weeks. [...] Read more »
As much as I hate to admit it, I tend to be a head-in-the-sand type when it comes to bad news. I stopped reading the news after I found each day’s trending articles were upsetting me so much that I couldn’t focus on my own work. And although I am the daughter of a financial [...] Read more »
