Investing in the stock market is one of the key ways to grow your wealth. If you save money but only keep it in cash for your whole life, you’re not going to be able to beat inflation. Sure there is risk involved when investing in the stock market. But there’s a wide range of […]
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Structured derivative products are a type of investment that provide some downside hedges. They are also called structured notes. I wrote this post back in 2012 after I got a six-figure severance. I was trying to figure out how to safely invest my severance with a hedge given I no longer had a job. I’m
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Back in July of 2010, I wrote a post entitled, “Am I Living In A Parallel Universe?” discussing the disconnect between the robustness on the ground in San Francisco and the incredibly negative mood by the mass media. Back then, I kept thinking “the economy is back, baby,” but nobody seemed to agree. Even my
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We have a culture of blaming others for our problems and Main Street is now on a tear with this “Occupy Wall Street” movement that’s gathering steam. The thesis is that financial institutions and anybody who has anything to deal with financial institutions are bad. The government and the media help fuel the fire against Wall
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If you want to drastically increase your betting odds, this post is for you. As someone who worked on the trading floor for two major investment banks for 13 years, I’m very accustomed to betting. We proposition bet (prop bet) on random things all the time. The more bets you make, the better your betting
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If you’re worried about the state of the markets, don’t panic. The economy will be just fine. It’s important to use times of uncertainty to preserve capital and not do anything rash. As the markets were melting down this past week I decided to go watch the World Champion San Francisco Giants beat up the
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It’s good to be frugal by nature. You will likely never get into financial trouble as a result. You will always be able to appreciate things since you’re never buying the best and most expensive stuff. Sometimes, however, it’s good to splurge. You’ve already read “‘No Point Making Money If You Don’t Spend Your Money“, and
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In the past, I used to go hunting for the best CD rates. Once a week I go yield hunting fo the best CD rates. I always like to have 5% – 10% of my investable assets in risk-free assets like CDs. To get to your magical retirement number quicker, you can either save more
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Let’s review why did oil collapse back in 2015 and 2016 and see if we can use the information for today. Finally, oil has gotten crushed in 2015 and 2016 and remains depressed in 2017. We haven’t seen this large of a decline in oil in years as momentum speculators rushed out like someone discovering
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If you haven’t heard, our broke government wants to get its hands on the online poker industry’s potentially US$6 billion dollar annual revenue pie. They’ve frozen bank accounts linked with Full Tilt Poker, Poker Stars, and Absolute Poker and have indicted 11 founding executives of the companies. All totaled, the government wants US$3 billion in
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