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Getting Screwed Out of Your Hard-Earned Capital: How CDs and GICs Are Rip-Offs for Long-term Investing

By Kevin

  Is there such a thing as a guaranteed rate of return? There seems to be a trend for people to “flock to safety” by buying certificates of deposit (CDs) or their Canadian equivalent, guaranteed investment certificates (GICs). There is no risk if a capital loss, at least in nominal terms.   However, money is… [Read More]

Filed Under: Economics, Growing Your Wealth, Investing, Market Analysis, Miscellaneous, Opinion, Saving Your Money Tagged With: Canada, Certificate of deposit, Guaranteed investment certificate, Inflation rate, interest, Interest rate, Rate of return

How Did These Unconventional Investments Moves Do In 2011?

By Kevin

Last year, I wrote about 3 Unconventional Investment Moves to Make in 2011. This was a look at a few unconventional investment moves that went against the grain of common wisdom at the time. When the herd is running in one direction, it might be for a good reason, but sometimes, there are benefits to running… [Read More]

Filed Under: Growing Your Wealth, Investing, Market Analysis, Precious Metals Tagged With: Contrarian, conventional wisdom, Exchange-traded fund, GLD, Investment, Natural Gas Prices, SLV, United States dollar

The 3 Stages of Financial Freedom

By Kevin

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… [Read More]

Filed Under: Economics, Growing Your Wealth, Healthy Living, Investing, Market Analysis, Miscellaneous, Opinion, Paying Down Debt, Philosophy, Precious Metals, Saving Your Money, Stories Tagged With: business, finance, Financial freedom, Financial independence, Financial Services, personal finance, rat race, Saving, wealth

The CAPE: How to Beat Stocks With a 50–50 Portfolio

By Guest

This is a guest post by Mathieu Bouville, PhD What on Earth is the CAPE? The price-earnings ratio (P/E) is a common tool for valuing a stock or a group of stock (such as an index). A difficulty is that there are multiple choices for the earnings. One generally uses forecasts, but these are basically… [Read More]

Filed Under: Growing Your Wealth, Investing, Market Analysis Tagged With: business, CAPE, Continuously compounded nominal and real returns, investing, P/E ratio

Why Are Gold Prices Skyrocketing?

By Guest

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… [Read More]

Filed Under: Growing Your Wealth, Investing, Market Analysis, Miscellaneous, Opinion, Precious Metals Tagged With: gold, gold bubble, inflation, recession, sovereign debt

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