Sharebuilder Investing: My Review Post-Capital One Merger
Sharebuilder, back in the early 2000s, had a great premise. For a fee of $4 per trade, you could build up an investment position in a stock over time. If you wanted to own, say, $10,000 in Berkshire...
View ArticleThe Most Important Thing About Money and Investing
The average household income for readers of this site $82,000 per year. That makes sense—there are only three reasons why someone would want to read about money: (1) they have money, (2) they...
View ArticleFirst Stock Purchase of 2019
I despise self-promotion, much preferring the approach of the Chinese proverb “Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come” or the Charlie Munger approach “Do your own work that’s on...
View ArticleMy Coke Rewards: What Happened?
As someone who owns Coca-Cola stock because it controls 3.5% of the world’s liquid beverage supply and earns obscenely high profit margins of 29%, I follow the beverage maker’s marketing efforts over...
View ArticleHow To Find Success, Wealth, and Good Fortune In The Stock Market
If you follow the Fama-French models or read the work of people like Larry Swedroe who espouse something called “the efficient market hypothesis”, you may think that it is dumb to invest in individual...
View ArticleDon’t Tell Jason Fieber He Can’t Retire By Age 40, Professor
If you would listen to Rob Weagley tell it, it’s a foolish game to try and pursue early retirement. He was recently quoted in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch speaking approvingly of bloggers that encourage...
View ArticleThe Promised Land of Dividend Investing
Sometime in the past twelve months, Realty Income did it. Since becoming a publicly traded company three and a half decades ago, every dollar that you invested into Realty Income back then would be...
View ArticleThe Easy And Hard Ways To Create Million-Dollar Fortunes
I am friends with a woman whose father is a partner at a law firm in Missouri. I do not talk about her dad’s occupation much, other than the fact that she constantly mentions that her dad works a...
View ArticleHow To Be An Intelligent, Wealthy Long-Term Investor
Today, I want to spend a couple minutes talking about a blogger named Darren Rowse, a man whose skill in building a blogging empire I respect immensely. He’s a guy who runs a collection of highly...
View ArticleFree Mortgage Calculator: Payments, Taxes, and More
Most mortgage calculators only provide you with basic information regarding the home price, down payment, interest rate, and mortgage term. While these are often the most critical aspects of any home...
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes: The Best Fifty
Benjamin Franklin’s classic “The Way to Wealth” and “Poor Richard’s Almanack” contain many fantastic quotes, and I have put together a list of the best fifty from both: Benjamin Franklin’s quotations...
View ArticleThe Conoco, BP, and Royal Dutch Shell Retirement Plan
I recently got a call out of the blue from someone that I went to Washington & Lee with back in the day. We were good friends during our Freshman year, but we joined separate fraternities, and for...
View ArticleHoward Schultz’s Presidential Run In 2020
After Howard Schultz, the Starbucks titan with an estimated net worth of nearly $3.5 billion, appeared on 60 Minutes and suggested that he may run for President of the United States as an Independent,...
View ArticleYour Dividend Investments Never Stop Working
I’m currently waiting at a Panera Bread for someone, and until she gets here, I have a moment to dash out a quick thought, so I’ll proceed in the Shakespearean vein that brevity is the soul of wit....
View ArticleThe Blue-Chip Stocks People Ignore
Here’s some Rodney Dangerfield footage to get the mailbag questions started, because I’m going to be talking about the companies that don’t get no respect. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4qe4QcymLM...
View ArticleDividend Investing Vs. Value Investing
There is no topic that seems to draw as many internal contradictions as the discussion of money. This is true if you have a biblical worldview—you have to reconcile assertions that money is the root of...
View ArticleShould You Feel Guilty About A Big Inheritance?
I’ve been recently having a conversation with a reader in his 30s who just inherited $650,000 from his parents who recently passed away. By his own admission, he’s lived paycheck to paycheck his whole...
View ArticleValid Holographic Wills Add Spice To Estate Planning
The general rule in all fifty states is that, in order for a Last Will and Testament to be legally valid, the will must be signed by at least two witnesses. Although I recommend that all readers...
View ArticleHow To Never Become A Financially Independent Dividend Investor
There are three character traits that you can possess that will make sure you never become a financially independent investor that lives fully on the income generated by his business holdings. First,...
View ArticleWhy General Electric Stock Will Recover
I have long been intrigued by profitable businesses that cut their dividends. This is because many investors fail to realize that the recovery characteristics of a business change for the better when a...
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