Never Leave the Game in the 8th

Posted on July 14, 2006

Greetings, Welcome to this month’s issue of Financial Market Update. In this issue, I’ll tell why this is one of the greatest times to be invested. I will also talk about the bond market’s conflicting signals, and what that might mean for you. Also, more in our recent series of articles about the real estate market, that has been helpful to so many of you. Never

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Diversification: When It Doesn’t Work

Posted on June 12, 2006

Diversification: When It Doesn’t Work The most common description of diversification is to not keep all of your eggs in one basket. However, Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate of the late 1800s, had a very different philosophy regarding diversification, “keep all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket very carefully.” Carnegie was mighty successful, having made so much money by age 65 that

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Socio-Economics – the Markets and You

Posted on November 16, 2005

Socio-Economics – the Markets and You Robert N Elliott, an accountant in the 1920’s and 30’s, discovered repeating patterns in the prices of stocks and entire markets. These patterns are repeated over and over in smaller and larger cycles called fractals. And they are also repeated in nature as well as the financial markets. The structure of an atom looks very much like our solar

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Aging Gracefully

Posted on April 15, 2003

Thoughts on Aging Gracefully…. In time of war, it’s easy to get overly serious. As I believe that the greatest things are done with a light heart, I’m passing along the following from a stream of email jokes sent to me by friends. Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it. The older we get, the

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