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How Do You Know When You’re Financially Ready To Start Investing? 3 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm
The simple answer to this question is “as soon as you have money.” Ideally, you should start investing whenever you have money to invest. Time is on your side and those who start young will be very ri...
5 Fatal Investing Mistakes You Must Avoid 7 May 2013 | 04:00 pm
Warren Buffett once said the key to successful investing is to avoid making major mistakes. Kinda. He actually said “don’t lose money,” but I think my paraphrase is more useful. You don’t need any big...
If Everybody Indexed, Would It Stop Working? 29 Apr 2013 | 04:00 pm
It’s difficult to get into an “active vs passive investing” discussion on the internet without somebody throwing out the “yeah, but if everybody indexed it would stop working” argument. Yeah, that’s t...
How To Eat Cat Food In Retirement (In 8 Easy Steps) 22 Apr 2013 | 04:00 pm
Ed: First of all, it should be noted this title is only half sarcastic. Have you seen some of the stuff rich people feed their pets? We should be so lucky. Regular readers of this blog already know t...
Bond Prices May Drop If Rates Rise, But How Bad Could It Get? 1 Apr 2013 | 04:00 pm
Current conventional wisdom holds that interest rates are at unsustainably low levels and have nowhere to go but up. Neverminding the fact that people have been saying this for several years now, they...
Dave Ramsey Says Financial Advisors Help Boost Returns. Do They? 25 Mar 2013 | 03:00 pm
Last week’s post about the quality of Dave Ramsey’s investment advice got a lot of attention. Today, I’d like to focus one just one of the claims Ramsey made in the March 11, 2013 episode of his podca...
Dave Ramsey Investment Advice: Is It Really THAT Bad? 18 Mar 2013 | 03:00 pm
You’ve no doubt heard of Dave Ramsey, the popular get-out-of-debt guru. Those of you who pay attention to such things have probably heard the following about him: his advice for getting out of debt an...
3 Reasons Saving For Retirement Should Be Legally Mandatory 12 Mar 2013 | 07:55 am
I’m going to start off this post with what seems to me an obvious given: the retirement system in this country is broken. Social security is all well and good, but the do-it-yourself retirement saving...
In Defense Of Those Expensive, Market Timing, No-Good Target Date Funds 5 Mar 2013 | 04:00 pm
Target Date Funds catch a lot of flak these days. They were originally designed as an easy, one-stop solution for people who didn’t have any interest in managing their own money (or hiring somebody to...
3 Reasons Stocks Are NOT In A Bubble Despite Recent Highs! 26 Feb 2013 | 04:00 pm
It happens every time the Dow comes close to a new all-time high (why people pay attention to the Dow instead of a more suitable index, I’ll never know): nervous investors flood internet forums with q...
