Last week, I talked about the three stages of financial despair. We all want to get out of the rat race, but before we get there, we need to get out of the hole and onto level ground. Financial freedom Financial independence is one of my life-long dreams. I don’t really believe in the “traditional [...]
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The 3 Stages of Financial Freedom
45 Comments Kevin on Dec 12th 2011
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How I Made $150, Lost $200, and Re-learned a Valuable Lesson
The following is by Tony Chou, who runs an investment blog where he shares his thoughts on the financial markets. It all started in early 2011. As regular readers might know, I had an SLV position back then. I was bullish about silver, and heavily long. I was also interested in seeing how buying physical [...]
17 Comments Guest on Nov 30th 2011
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Why Are Gold Prices Skyrocketing?
The following is a guest post by Great Credit Score. As economic uncertainty dominates the news, the price of gold continues to maintain its high price. In fact gold has spiked so significantly since the 2008 mortgage crisis that most experts think it could be looked at as nothing less than a bubble (especially in [...]
18 Comments Guest on Sep 30th 2011
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Gold Versus Fiat and the Mother of All Bubbles
The price of gold has recently been shooting through the roof. As of the time of this writing gold is hovering near $1870. It seems like only a short while ago when I was wondering if $1500 was near. What’s going on with the price of gold? Is this the beginning of a mania phase [...]
27 Comments Kevin on Aug 22nd 2011
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7 Things to Invest in for 2011
The following is a guest post from Credit Card Compare. Diversity has always been an important factor in the success of any financial portfolio. Finding the best assets to fill a portfolio is the quest of every investor. Here are 8 investments worth serious consideration. Commodities Predicting the commodity market can be difficult. Commodities like [...]
32 Comments Guest on Mar 13th 2011
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How to Profit in Gold
How to Profit in Gold When we invest our savings, we usually limit our choice of assets to mutual funds, bonds, and certificates of deposit. Investing your money in these assets has traditionally been seen as the best and most straightforward way of accumulating wealth for the future… at least, that’s what we used to [...]
42 Comments Kevin on Dec 23rd 2010
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The Great Credit Contraction And How To Use Gold As Money
The following is a guest post by Trace Mayer, J.D. an entrepreneur, investor, journalist and monetary scientist with degrees in accounting and law who understands economics and can help you understand monetary science and economic law at Run To Gold and how to control your personal privacy at How To Vanish. A couple days ago Kevin [...]
31 Comments Guest on Nov 17th 2010
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Gold, Revisited: Is $1500 Near?
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock (or a gold nugget?), you’ve probably heard about the skyrocketing gold prices. As of this writing, gold is at $1425 USD! Only a few months ago, I don’t think most people other than a few gold bugs would have imagined prices shooting up so high, and so fast. [...]
80 Comments Kevin on Nov 9th 2010
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Living to 100 and Beyond: Building Your Portfolio
This is the third in a series of articles on living to 100 and beyond. This post was originally published on June 1, 2010. In my last post on this series, I took a look into a possible future where lifespans extend out to one hundred and beyond, and the possible changes that will affect [...]
15 Comments Kevin on Jun 1st 2010
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What to do… what to do… when Mr. Market is grouchy?
I recently sold off a good chunk of my precious metals at the market peak, and with the recent market turmoil that doesn’t seem like it was such a bad decision. However, I am in a bit of a dilemma: I have a downpayment to pay, and I have a choice to draw on mutual [...]
9 Comments Kevin on May 19th 2010
