If You Are Investing A Few Hundred Dollars Per Month, Computershare Should Be...
www.computershare.com Check it out. Scroll through the terms of some of the plans available. If you looking to put less than $250 or so into a given stock each month, I’d stick with the companies that...
View ArticleThe Key to Getting Rich
I have long interested in discerning the contradictions between how the wealthy are portrayed in the popular culture and the mass media at large compared to their actual behaviors. This discrepancy has...
View ArticleYou Should Never Fear A Breakup Of The Too-Big-To-Fail Banks
I have always found it odd that people that a breakup of the big banks like Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Wells Fargo would somehow screw over shareholders. As you probably...
View ArticleThe Hard Part About Investing
When I contemplate a potential investment, one of the hard decisions to make is defining the point at which a management team’s executive compensation becomes so excessive that it ought to deter...
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Financing Here, Financing There, Financing Everywhere
With the rise of online price comparison shopping, many sellers have come to appreciate that consumers will purchase a product or service at the lowest possible price offered, with little tolerance to...
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Western Union Stock: Why I Won’t Touch It
As part of my long-term study into the various operations of financial institutions, I have also come across ubiquitous payment processor Western Union. In what has now become seven years of writing...
View ArticleMartin Luther King’s Dream Applied To Stock Ownership
Back when I was an undergraduate at Washington & Lee University, I made the argument to one of my history professors that low-fee DRIP plans provided an example of where Marxist principles actually...
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The Additional Eight Hours of Life Per Week
Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst published a working paper in 2005 titled “Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time Over Five Decades” that found that the average man and woman in the United...
View ArticleThomas Sowell on Human Capital
One of the most significant passages from Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics: “Even among those who are conventionally called workers or laborers, much of what they contribute to the economy is not labor...
View ArticleHow To Solve 10% Of Life’s Problems
I was recently reading this article on the effectiveness of D.A.R.E. programs nationwide (for those of you not aware, D.A.R.E. stands for “Drug Abuse Resistance Education” and is a nationally run...
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Stocks Get Cheap on Christmas Eve
The typical United States stock lost approximately 20% of its value in December 2018. Technically, we have to go back to the Great Depression to find another example of a December in which stock prices...
View ArticleHow To Save The Newspaper Industry
Somewhere in the basement at my parent’s house, there is a collection of newspapers that marked off important historical events from our family’s worldview. Copies of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the...
View ArticleThree Ways To Ruin Your Financial Life
One of the most powerful ways to think that I picked up from Charlie Munger was this: reverse engineer everything. There are generally two ways to do this: first, you determine the outcome you want,...
View ArticleSome Retirement Advice Is Terrible, Short-Term, and Treats You Like A Yo-Yo
If you received the September 7th copy of The Wall Street Journal, you would have encountered Jason Zweig’s article on the bottom of the first page titled: “Trading Your 401(k) Account: How Bright Can...
View ArticleContrarian Investing in Rural America
By making court appearances on behalf of clients in small towns across Missouri, I have observed that certain businesses have extremely strong footing in each and every small town. People get gas at...
View ArticleThe Secret That Can Carry You Through Your Investing Life
Dividends, plus the passage of time, can make a stock price chart look silly because of the easily understated nature of dividends in the wealth-building process. That’s it. That’s the secret to...
View ArticleYou Have Five Sources Of Power In This World
Every now and then, I like to write “big picture” posts that put my finance articles into the proper perspective of the overall whole. Today, I wanted to talk about the five sources of power that you...
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Investment Advice For A Lifetime
The best investment advice often involves the combination of the following steps: (1) acquire a specialized skill so that your labor generates meaningful money; (2) save some portion of your labor as...
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The BiggerPockets Real Estate Investing Site: Be Careful
I have spent some time recently reading the BiggerPockets investor forum, which is probably the most well-known tool for amateur and new real estate investors to learn about the process and presumably...
View ArticleThe Straight Dope On Diversification
I recently received this comment and question from reader “DB”, and once I saw that my response had crossed the 1,000 word threshold, I decided it was worthy of its own post. The question is about why...
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