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Don’t Get Fooled: High Pressure Marketing Tactics

By Kevin

Nigerian style 419 scam

“This offer is available TODAY only; you’d better hurry while it lasts!” “Normally I would charge much higher than this, but for you only, I’m making you a special offer that you can’t refuse.” “You would be stupid to turn down such a good deal.” Do these slogans sound familiar to you? If so, then… [Read More]

Filed Under: Avoiding Scams, Opinion Tagged With: emotions, manipulation, marketing scams

How to Use Fear to Manipulate People

By Kevin

What is fear? Why do we experience fear, and how does it affect us? Well, fear is quite simply one of the most basic and primal emotions that we are capable of experiencing. Most animals share this emotion with us, from mice to men. Fear is the drive that takes us away from danger, and… [Read More]

Filed Under: Avoiding Scams, Opinion, Saving Your Money Tagged With: active management, bond yields, bonds, deflation, dollar cost averaging, emotions, fear, fixed rates, home ownership, inflation, interest rates, manipulation, market timing, mortgages, mutual funds, variable rates, warranties

Is It Time to Nuke the Spill?

By Kevin

Another week passes by, and another tens of thousands of barrels of oil gush out into the Gulf of Mexico, adding to what is possibly the U.S.’ worst environmental disaster. With the failure of one attempt to stop the leak after another, pundits are now starting to look at more drastic (and perhaps insane) alternatives,… [Read More]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Weekend Reading Tagged With: arbitrage, austerity, Austrian economics, automation, beating the index, bonds, BP, brain science, currency depreciation, debt, entrepreneurship, EU, feedback, finance, foreclosure, foreign exchange, gold, Greece, Guatemala, home ownership, homeowner's association, housing bubble, index funds, interest rates, manipulation, mortgages, nuclear explosion, oil, oil spill, paper gold, retirement, riches, sinkhole, slavery, speculative bubble, value investing, Yakezie

9 Myths We Can’t Afford: Can the Printing Press Achieve Paradise on Earth?

By Kevin

The printing press: A fearsome, powerful tool. Used in the hands of a private man, he is branded a counterfeiter, and rightly so; his fake bills were created into existence without any value in exchange. Used in the hands of the government, however, the printing press suddenly becomes a legitimate policy tool, used to manipulate… [Read More]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Opinion, Philosophy Tagged With: currency, currency depreciation, debt, foreign exchange, inflation, interest rates, manipulation, money, savings, sovereign risk, speculative bubble, store of value, wealth

Keeping the Hounds at Bay

By Kevin

It’s been a pretty interesting week as far as events go. The pressure has been on and off Greece all week, as it now seems clear that a bailout for them is coming, but the question is under what terms and conditions. Angela Merkel of Germany is going to have to face regional elections soon,… [Read More]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Opinion, Philosophy, Weekend Reading Tagged With: debt, Greece, inflation, manipulation, sovereign risk

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