My Thoughts on This: You’ve heard me talk about the future where my children are at an age where I am now. Roughly 2040. Seems like a long way away, but its really not. Today, I happen to have on a shirt that honors the Gators 1996 National Champtionship; that was 17 years ago, for …
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My Comments: There is a lot of evidence and sentiment that 2013 will be a solid year. Housing starts are strong and will continue to be at least until interest rates start to climb. The jobs report continues to be positive with roughly 200K new jobs every month for the past four months. GDP growth …
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My Thoughts on This: One of the consequences of the deal entered into by Congress that will result in across the board budget cuts will be a greater inability on the part of the IRS to detect fraud and catch the bad guys when it comes to taxes. Many of us have little love lost …
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Farnarkeling is a sport which began in Mesopotamia, which literally means ‘between the rivers’. This would put it somewhere in Victoria or New South Wales between the Murray and the Darling. The word Farnarkeling is Icelandic in structure, Urdu in metre and Celtic in the intimacy of its relationship between meaning and tone. Farnarkeling is …
My Comments: For many years than I am aware of, there have been “experts” who have expressed their opinion about the optimum rate to withdraw money from accumulated retirement funds. The reason for this is to offset a fear by many of running out of money at some point before you die. Typically, that’s not …
My Comments: When I saw this number, I had to reach far into my psyche to actually figure out how many dollars we’re talking about. And I’m someone who follows astronomy blog sites from time to time and am used to thinking in terms of billions of light years. It takes some time to get …
Goldman Sachs declares an end to 12-year run-up of gold, just before Bernanke reaffirms monetary easing My Comments: Gold, in its many forms, from actual coins, to shares of gold mining companies across the globe, has been a strong investment for many people over these past few years. We can argue that it reached bubble …
My Comments: I typically start a conversation with someone about investments by suggesting there are two types of investors: Those that want to do it themselves and those who decide they need some help. If they say they prefer to do it themselves, then my comment is usually to the effect that I'll help point …
My Comments: I’m trying to decide if the author of this article is fundamentally to the left of the Obama administration and therefore critical of his lack of fire in promoting new revenue sources for the country, ie higher taxes, or whether the writer is critical because virtually everyone on the right is critical, regardless …
My Comments: This is one of the reasons why so many people expect the markets, especially the stock market, to do well in 2013. One of the uses for all this cash is to buy back stock, which in turn reduces the supply, and if you know a little bit about economics, if you reduce …
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