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August 4th, 2010 | Category:
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Our financial system operates on trust. When you put your money into a bank, you trust that it will be there when you want to take it out. When you put money in the stock market, you expect ups and downs, but you also expect that over a 20 year period [...] Continue reading Have You Lost Faith in the Market?
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July 26th, 2010 | Category:
Investing |
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.
~ Mark Twain
Update: This article was included in the Carnival of Personal Finance #268 hosted by Ultimate Money Blog. Thanks!
I was going to do a single [...] Continue reading Stocks and Bonds: Pros and Cons
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July 23rd, 2010 | Category:
Investing |
Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest.
~ Author Unknown
Update: This article appeared in the Canadian Personal Finance and Investing Carnival posted at Investing Thesis. Thanks!
We’ve been talking about bubbles all week. So far, we’ve outlined 5 financial bubbles and 5 socioeconomic bubbles that could affect your money and your quality of life. It looks like we may have a bubble of [...] Continue reading No Respite in Diversification
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July 19th, 2010 | Category:
Economics |
Economic advance is not the same as human progress.
~ John Clapham
Update: This article was included in the Carnival of Personal Finance #267 at Beating Broke. Thanks!
We’ve heard a lot about bubbles in the economic world over the past decade – so much, in fact, that it seems like we might be facing a bubble of bubbles. But what does that mean to the average person? [...] Continue reading 5 Financial Bubbles: Are We Facing a Bubble of Bubbles?
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May 18th, 2010 | Category:
Investing |
There’s more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line.
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.
~ Indigo Girls, “Closer to Fine”
Those of you who have been reading Balance Junkie for a while know that my economic forecast is as follows: Cloudy with a Chance of Hurricanes. As such, I’m going to start with the assumption [...] Continue reading How to Manage Your Money in Uncertain Times
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