Investment Strategy

Your Survival Guy Stacking Wood and Compounding Money

With Your Survival Guy’s kids home for the weekend, it was the perfect opportunity to stack another cord of wood. Living in New England,...

SPAC-TACULAR COLLAPSE: Billions in SPAC Deals Disappear

You've read that Your Survival Guy doesn't invest in SPACs. The problem is that you invest, and they win. You take on risk, and...

What’s the Hardest Thing About Owning Company Stock?

OK, we know how much the billionaires are worth—less than they were—like they’re acquaintances. Job cuts are happening by the tens of thousands. The...

Your Survival Guy’s Way to Wealth

Your Survival Guy's way to wealth is about winning the slow and steady race. It's about showing up. It's about doing your job. It's...

Follow Your Survival Guy Down This Road to Wealth

There’s nothing wrong with incremental growth. It keeps you focused day in and day out so you don’t lose sight of the prize. With...

You Realized This Long Ago About Your Work

In my conversation with you, you prove to me that a life built upon incremental growth is one worth living. Let’s see, in just...

Your Survival Guy: Monsieur Get Your Money Cookin’

Is history a reliable guide? Let me tell you a story. On our research trip to Paris, we spent time on the left bank...

UNCERTAINTY AHEAD: Traders Turn to Short-term Contracts

Bloomberg's Lu Wang reports that traders are turning to short-term contracts in an attempt to profit despite long-term uncertainty created by inflation and the...

Gale Warning During Newport’s Concours and Motor Week

Happy Monday from Your Survival Guy. What a weekend. Weather-wise a rainout, which is a shame because it was Newport’s Concours & Motor Week—celebrating...

What You Start to See Is a Death Spiral

Your Survival Guy is never surprised about these headlines during troubled markets. Here’s a beauty from yesterday in the WSJ, “Pension Strategy Left Funds...