The first new idea for controlling holiday spending is to enter an agreement with your spouse not to exchange presents but instead to spend a smaller amount of […]
Return Predictor
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What’s Wrong (and Right) with Using Historical Stock Data to Predict Returns
Problem #1 with Using Historical Stock Data to Predict Returns — The Future Might Not Be Like the Past. The Stock-Return Predictor does not really predict anything. It […]
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Personal Finance Podcasts
Podcast #1 (32 minutes) — July 18, 2008 — Buy-and-Hold Cannot Work — Here’s Why To download to your computer, right click and choose “Save Link As” Podcast […]
Saving Without Sacrifice
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Personal Finance Planning Is Not About Self-Denial Anymore
Personal finance planning is a boring business. That’s what most people think anyway. But it needn’t be so. Make your money management project an adventure in pursuit of […]
Start Me Up
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Personal Finance Advice For the Rest of Us
I’m building an army of some tough sons of bitches. I’m recruiting my army from the orphanages.And if a shooting star goes by, — Dylan, “Thunder on the […]
Return Predictor
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Benefits of Using the Historical Return Data for Predicting Stock Returns
Benefit #1 of using historical return data for predicting stock returns — it permits you to know whether stocks are worth buying at the price they are being […]
The Self-Directed Life
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Warning: I Talk to Goons
BigMoneyJim posted a comment to the blog a few weeks ago (this article was posted in April 2008) acknowledging that he is a regular at Greaney’s Goon Board […]
The Turned-On Budget
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Financial Life Planning
Financial life planning is a hot idea. For good reason. The key to success with a money management plan is achieving an integration of life, work, and money […]
The New Buy-and-Hold
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P/E10 Is An Investor’s Best Friend
The first reason why P/E10 is an investor’s best friend is that it tells you the price you are paying for the stocks you buy. You wouldn’t buy […]
The Self-Directed Life
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8 Paths to Financial Independence
Financial Independence Path #1 — The Slow-and-Steady Conventional Path All money advice is ultimately advice aimed at helping you attain financial independence. So even the most popular writers, […]