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Financial Advice For My Kids: Dollar Cost Averaging
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Financial Advice For My Kids. Wednesday, January 11, 2012. Before starting such a program. Why is this a good way to invest? Well, suppose you are buying a stock, and you decide to purchase 10 shares a month for a year. At the end of the year, you will have 120 shares. The stock price fluctuates during the year, lets say in the range $25 to $40. To make this example concrete, suppose the price goes like this during the year:. This was a pretty good investment! How is this possible? Well if you look at th...
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Financial Advice For My Kids: The 50 Percent Rule - A Simple Investing Strategy
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Financial Advice For My Kids. Tuesday, August 30, 2011. The 50 Percent Rule - A Simple Investing Strategy. OK Here is the promised simple strategy for investing. In this column, I'll just give the recipe for the strategy, and I'll devote future columns to explaining how it works and how to modify it for different purposes. Take all of the money that you have to invest, and divide it into three piles:. 50% for investing in stocks. 40% for investing in bonds. 10% to keep in cash. With the money designated ...
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Financial Advice For My Kids: Good Debt and Bad Debt
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Financial Advice For My Kids. Friday, December 17, 2010. Good Debt and Bad Debt. You might think from my last post (see Getting Started - Rule #2. That I believe that all debt is bad. But that's not the case. Sometimes it's OK, and even a good thing to go into debt. How can you tell good debt from bad debt? What's the difference between these two cases? Another example of potentially good debt is when you borrow money to go to college (or for any type of education or training). If the training you re...
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Financial Advice For My Kids: Selecting a Broker
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Financial Advice For My Kids. Tuesday, May 10, 2011. OK, if you've met the requirements for beginning to invest (see my previous entry on the prerequisites to investing. The first step is to select a broker and open an account with them. When I'm choosing a broker, the things I look for are: online trading, low fees, good execution, and a nearby office. It's useful to check out articles like the annual Smart Money list of top brokers. In the next few entries in this blog, I will describe a simple investi...
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Financial Advice For My Kids: Getting Started (rule #2)
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Financial Advice For My Kids. Sunday, August 29, 2010. Getting Started (rule #2). Was aimed at getting you started on the road to having some money to invest. The second rule is aimed at keeping you on track. 2) You should never carry credit card debt. If you treat your credit card like this, then you aren't really going into debt, you are just paying your bills on a monthly basis. If your credit card charges an annual or monthly fee anyway, then you should cancel that card and get one with no fees.
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QuirkSand: May 2009
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Quirks are tiny flaws. They refract our inner light like the facets of a jewel. How much less interesting it would be if we all were flawless! Jim Bennett, Dec. 2006. Sunday, May 31, 2009. Since I wrote my first article on Taoism. I've read some different versions of the Tao Te Ching. I'd like to recommend the book by Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo as a good place to start if you are interested in learning about Taoism ("Tao Te Ching", 1993, Hackett Publishing). Wednesday, May 20, 2009. Anyway, Eccl...
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QuirkSand: First steps: Taoism
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Quirks are tiny flaws. They refract our inner light like the facets of a jewel. How much less interesting it would be if we all were flawless! Jim Bennett, Dec. 2006. Thursday, April 30, 2009. Taoism gets its name from the Chinese word meaning way (above). This is the first word of a Chinese text that was supposed to have been written by the Chinese sage Lao-Tzu. See the Wikipedia article on the Tao Te Ching. For more details, and also the one on Taoism. The Tao seems to be some underlying principle of t...
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QuirkSand: First steps: Epicureanism
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Quirks are tiny flaws. They refract our inner light like the facets of a jewel. How much less interesting it would be if we all were flawless! Jim Bennett, Dec. 2006. Saturday, July 18, 2009. For more on this. The Roman poet Lucretius wrote an epic poem called "On the Nature of Things", where he presents the main ideas and arguments of Epicureanism (see Nature of Things. The Epicureans had a materialistic world view, thinking that the universe was composed of atoms. Even the Gods were made of atoms&#...
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QuirkSand: First steps: Cynicism
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Quirks are tiny flaws. They refract our inner light like the facets of a jewel. How much less interesting it would be if we all were flawless! Jim Bennett, Dec. 2006. Thursday, September 17, 2009. I wanted to talk about two other Greek schools of philosophy, Cynicism and Skepticism. In reading about Cynicism, I realized I should have covered the Cynics before discussing Stoicism, since it appears that the Stoics derived many of their ideas from the Cynics. This article on Cynicism. The Cynics believed th...
