Yesterday you read about Your Survival Guy's 10 Most Popular Survival Posts of 2019, today you’ll discover Your Survival Guy's 10 Most Popular Money Posts of 2019. This Money Market Fund is Paying 47 Times More than its Competition Is Your Cash Safe? Probably not This Safe “Dad, You’re Stressing Me Out” FIRE! (Part II) Living Your Best Life: FIRE! (Part I) Dead or Alive? The Future of Long-Term Investing Dead or Alive? The Future of Long-Term Investing: Part IV Your Retirement Life: What States Did Americans Flee in 2018? Where Did They Go? “I wish that I could give … [Read more...]
Your Survival Guy’s 10 Most Popular Survival Posts of 2019
Thank you for reading Your Survival Guy in 2019. You made this year the site’s biggest yet. Here’s the list of the top 10 most popular survival posts of 2019 on Yoursurvivalguy.com: Your Survival Guy: Out of Gas in Newport Air Force Tells Americans They Aren’t Taking the EMP Threat Seriously Enough They’re Not Getting My Guns Tucker Explains: Poverty Doesn’t Cause Instability. Envy Does. Driving into Gun Hell without Your Survival Pistol of Choice Is America on the Brink of a Civil War? Paris Update: Notre-Dame, Protests and Your Survival Guy Tucker Explains: Two … [Read more...]
Warning: Avoid Mutual Fund Year End Distributions
UPDATE: The end of the year is a great time to review your mutual fund year-end distributions. You should try to avoid them if possible. If you haven't done so already, read through Fidelity's primer on Mutual Funds and Taxes below. You don’t need to worry about year-end distributions with individual stocks. But with mutual funds, you absolutely need to worry. It’s why at Young Research we favor individual stocks in our Retirement Compounders investment strategy. Here’s a primer on year-end distributions courtesy of Fidelity. Pay particular attention to tax strategies for mutual funds, or … [Read more...]
SECURE Act Passed by Congress on the Way Out the Door
You've read about the SECURE Act and the hidden taxes targeting your family that it contains. Now, while everyone is busy Christmas shopping, and just as Congress is about to leave town, the bill was smuggled into a spending bill, and pushed through the legislature. According to Barron's the bill "means a spate of changes for retirees related to their required minimum withdrawals, the way they use IRAs, and rethinking estate planning options." Reshma Kapadia reports on the bill for Barron's writing: The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement—better known as the Secure … [Read more...]
A Step in the Right Direction for Protecting Investors
The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards is finally taking measures to clean up the error-filled reporting on its website that classifies many troubled financial advisors as having "clean" records. The CFP has been relying on these advisors to self-report any bad behavior, and with predictable results that has failed. Many of the advisors, who are mostly brokers and insurance agents, are regulated by FINRA as well. FINRA has disclosed their bad behavior, but CFP has missed the mark. That might finally change. Jason Zweig and Andrea Fuller report at The Wall Street Journal: The … [Read more...]
Minimum Wage Hike is Why Long-Standing California Restaurants Are Closing
Restaurants in Sacramento are closing up shop citing the impending Jan 1, 2020 minimum wage hike in California. Some of these institutions have been in business for decades. The new hourly minimum wage will rise to $13. Compare California’s min wage to the “open for business” state of Utah. The Beehive state has a minimum wage of $7.50 and, guess what else—rising wages. When money is respected, good things happen. That is exactly what’s happening in rich states like Utah. Here's the story of one businessman being hurt by the minimum wage hikes from Fox … [Read more...]
Your Retirement Life: No Gold/Silver in Safe Deposit Box
A son of long-time subscribers to Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report emailed me last week about a letter his parents had received from their bank branch. Not a phone call to set up a meeting, a letter. According to him, the bank sent the letter to his parents stating that no gold or silver would be allowed in the bank’s safe deposit boxes. There was no explanation for the change in the letter. The note wasn’t from a small local bank on Main Street, USA. This bank is one of the biggest players in the world. Its regional branches extend like tentacles to every street corner … [Read more...]
Trump Era Adds 10,000 Points to the Dow, and Counting
Fox Business's Jonathan Garber reports that on Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed 28,332.74, and therefore had climbed more than 10,000 points since Donald Trump was elected as the 45th President of the United States on November 8, 2016. That's a 54% gain, excluding the Dow's all-important dividends. He writes: The gains show why U.S. markets have become the envy of the world under Trump, who has followed through on his promises of cutting taxes and regulations and rewriting global trade deals in America's favor. By comparison, global exchanges such as Hong Kong’s Hang … [Read more...]
Rich CEO, Poor CEO? Why Fidelity is Number One
You have read about why Fidelity is Number One. Today, I want to point your attention to the massive consolidation happening in the financial services industry, most notably the recent Schwab/TD Ameritrade hook-up. What concerns me is the potential for the customer to be lost in this chaos and whether or not these deals are even worth it. At the end of the day who benefits from more customers? Probably not the customer. This is yet another reason why Fidelity is Number One. It is privately held—guided by a third-generation family member in CEO Abigail Johnson. Forbes just listed … [Read more...]
Your Retirement Life: Bruins Great Tim Thomas
Congratulations to Boston Bruins great Tim Thomas, one of my all-time favorites, on being inducted this week into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. Thomas’ stingy goaltending was the reason the Bruins won the Stanley Cup in 2011. After the Bruins won, he refused to visit the Obama White House, turning him into a polarizing force within the organization. This is what Thomas said he believed in: I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People. This is being done at the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial level. This is … [Read more...]
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