By 2 Cents on April 27th, 2011 | Category: Money Psychology |  Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Do you have financial goals that you just haven’t been able to achieve? Maybe you’ve always wanted to set up a budget, but you just haven’t found the time. Maybe you want to learn more about investing or economics, but you just don’t know where to start. Before you know it years pass by, you’re no closer to your goals and you’re left wondering why.
All of us face different financial obstacles. Some of us have a hard time figuring out how to earn more income. Others have plenty of income, but struggle to save [...]
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By 2 Cents on April 19th, 2011 | Category: Economics | Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
~ James Baldwin
This is an excerpt of an article that was originally published on Seeking Alpha as premium content. You can read the entire article there.
There’s been no shortage of potentially market-moving news for investors to digest so far in 2011. From major geopolitical strife in the Middle East to the sovereign debt crisis in Europe to the multilevel Japanese catastrophe, markets have been remarkably resilient so far. Perhaps that’s because these types of events aren’t what’s driving the markets.
The only news items that seem to have any lasting impact on the stock and bond markets these days are those that pertain to monetary policy, particularly that of the US Federal Reserve. David Rosenberg recently pointed out that there has been [...]
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By 2 Cents on April 12th, 2011 | Category: Money Psychology |  No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
I’ve been pretty stressed out lately over our impending move and all of the uncertainties surrounding it. In fact, I went down for the count last week with some kind of flu virus that was, I’m pretty sure, not unrelated to the recent upheaval in our lives. I’m sure a lot of people would deal with this stuff a lot better than me, but I’ve never been a person who enjoys sudden changes. I need time to digest things.
Just to give you a quick update, we’re planning to move to a new town about two and a half to three hours away. We were going to build a new home with hopes of moving in before school starts in September. We’ve been going back and forth with the [...]
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By 2 Cents on April 6th, 2011 | Category: Investing |  Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it’s addressed to someone else.
~Ivern Ball
Market and economic commentary over the past few months has contained numerous references to walls. Setting aside the irony of the fact that the seat of American capitalism rests on Wall Street, we’ve also heard about the wall of water that washed over Japan and subsequently complicated the global macroeconomic picture. Add that to the Wall of Worry.
There are 3 kinds of walls mentioned in a lot of market discussions these days. Each one seems to take its turn in the spotlight and ironically, bulls and bears alike seem to be able to use all 3 walls to build their case. The one left standing may determine your investment success over the medium to long term. In the short-term, of course, anything can happen.
I’m talking about [...]
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By 2 Cents on April 1st, 2011 | Category: 20 Cents |  So March has come to an end, and with it, the first quarter of 2011. This month brought plenty of earth-moving events for the economy, the markets, and for me personally. We’ve had several long-standing governments fall, as well as upheaval in many others.
We watched our Japanese friends struggle with a mammoth earthquake, tsunami, and ongoing nuclear disaster. Political discourse seems to hit new lows around the globe each day. And yet life goes on and those of us who are lucky enough not to have been directly affected by these events feel just a little luckier, and hopefully, very thankful to be out of the fray.
As always, the ten servings of two cents I’ve compiled this month are quite varied and completely inadequate in capturing of all of the great articles out there. Nonetheless, I detect a sort of “think outside the box” [...]
Read on and enjoy … 20 Cents from March 2011
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