“…We place a lot of “stock” in the so-called “experts” and financial celebrities…. Unfortunately what they do and what they say are of two opposing philosophies.” – Wealthicity.com Actions Speak Louder Than Words It seems that the best advice can be learned not from listening to financial corporations and so-called experts, but by watching what they …
Suze Orman: Follow Her Example – Not Her Advice! Read More »
“…peer-to-peer (P2P) lending has finally earned its place on an income investor’s menu.” -Forbes.com Nat Harward is no average 20-something. He owns a strategy consulting firm which he started in 2012 after being an account manager at a New York PR firm. He’s a self-taught investor – and now an investment mentor – who describes …
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“When we leverage, we aggregate and organize existing resources to achieve success.” – Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid. When you invest or store your dollars somewhere, it’s important to consider if—or on what terms—you can borrow them back should an urgent need for cash arise. The ability to use your assets as …
The Leverage Test: Can You Use Your Assets as Collateral? Read More »
“Last week I bought a life insurance retirement policy. All I’ve got to do is keep up the payments for 15 years, then my agent can retire.” How much commission does a life insurance agents make? You might be very surprised… In the last two weeks, we have exposed the shocking affect that those “little” …
Life Insurance Commission Shock: Whole Life Commissions vs. Mutual Fund Expenses Read More »
“The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.” -Benjamin Graham As we saw in our last post, the truth about the stock market has been obscured for too long. Mutual funds and stocks, the mainstay of most retirement plans, represent more risk for less reward than has been assumed. …
Alternative Investments: If Not the Stock Market, then What? Read More »
DOES YOUR INCOME HAVE “HIGH BETA”? (And if it does, what are you going to do about it?) Recently, the paradigm for a lot of financial discussions has been making distinctions between the 1 percent of Americans who earn the highest annual incomes and the other 99%. In some conversations, the 1 percent has been …
“Death takes no bribes.” – Benjamin Franklin On the surface, the concept of Life Settlements can be a bit shocking at first. Let’s face it, making money on someone else’s natural death sounds like an investment idea cooked up in a Cohen Brothers movie. (Maybe the idea of benefiting financially from anyone’s death – especially …
“Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.” – Ambrose Bierce, American journalist Insurance is indeed a game of odds. You might never need car insurance or fire insurance, but you wouldn’t want to get …
Life Settlements: Why Investors Love Them to Death Read More »
LISTEN: Audio mp3 (16:19 min) “Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.” – Morpheus, from The Matrix In some circles, a million dollars is chump change; it takes only minutes for our government to spend that much, and big corporations have many millions pass through …
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