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It’s better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~ Joseph Joubert Update: This article was included in the Carnival of Financial Planning #150 posted at Military Finance. Thank you! I’m going to try to raise some of the key issues that might affect interest rates over the second half of 2010 and beyond. Like most of the economic and [...] Continue reading Interest Rates: 2010 Mid-Year Review Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~ Sam Ewing Will we have inflation or deflation? This is probably the most important question facing investors right now. There are plenty of smart people who argue convincingly for each. All of them make very good points. But who is right? If you asked [...] Continue reading Inflation or Deflation: Which Is It? The seeds that delivered that crop – the global financial crisis – there’s more of those seeds than ever. They’re bigger than ever. ~ Rob Arnott Update: This article was included in the Carnival of Financial Planning #148 posted at My Wealth Builder. I’ve got a really interesting video link for you in today’s Friday Food for Thought. I found it via Preet Banerjee at Where Does All [...] Continue reading 3D Hurricane: Are Your Finances Prepared? You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. ~ Irene C. Kassorla Update: This article was included in the Carnival of Money Stories: Spending Wisely Edition posted at Sweating the Big Stuff. Thank you! Women aren’t very good with money. Men aren’t very good with children. Children aren’t ready to learn [...] Continue reading Stereotypes: Toss the Rule Book & Write Your Own Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can “do” drugs, “have” sex, “make” babies, and “get” money (from their parents, crime, or [...] Continue reading Have We Become a Society of Financial Adolescents? |
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