Are You Benefiting from the Miracle of Compounding in Your Life?
Once you venture down the path of self-reliance and survival, you quickly realize it can be an expensive endeavor. Stop. Take a deep breath....
The 5 Rules of the Financial Armadillo
In the heart of a bull market in March 1997, I was urging investors to ignore the “TV media financial gibberish, most of which...
The Winning Investment Technique Used by Queen Elizabeth I
Two years ago I told readers the story of John Maynard Keynes' lectures on compound interest in the late 20s. Keynes told the story...
Are You Safe from the Biggest December U.S. Stock Drop Since 1931?
In 2018, U.S. stocks have lost more value in the month of December than during any other December since 1931. With the Federal Reserve...
Making Money the Old Fashioned Way
You may be familiar with Ronald Read’s story. It’s a story worth telling over and over and over again to anyone you know. My...
Marry Compound Interest, Divorce Market Timing
This week a long-time reader contacted me looking for some insight he could pass along to his children about the dangers of market timing....
How Pennies Can Win the War
Back in January of 1987, Ronald Reagan gave a State of the Union address in which he lamented the brutal war being waged by...
The Most Important Thing in Investing
Back in 2006 I was celebrating 20 years of writing Intelligence Report. Debbie and I were in Vermont, and had just visited Vermont’s Authentic...
The Profound Power of Patience & Compound Interest
Patience and the awesome power of compound interest are the heart and soul of investing. The NY Times reports that Sylvia Bloom, a legal...
How Many “Retirees” Will Keep Working?
The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) reports that 79% of workers expect to keep working to supplement their retirement incomes. That's a plan for...