How to Solve 93.6% of your Investment Problems with One Question

I’m tired. No punch line here, just tired. When I sat down to write to you this week my tired was front and center. I attempted to get rid of it and then realized why not use it. Because we are all tired sometimes. You might be a boss, an employee, an entrepreneur, a spouse,…

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The Best Investment Shortcut I Know

Have you ever considered this…? Before anyone ever looks for a shortcut or a hack, they must have first realized [unconsciously] they were on the wrong path. BECAUSE people on the right path don’t look for shortcuts. Isn’t that interesting? Do you know why shortcuts are so pervasive today? Because most people are on the…

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Can Your Money Manager Beat the S&P 500?

Consider this… The last time the British rowing team won an Olympic gold was 1912! To say they were average would have been an understatement. It wasn’t money they were missing. It wasn’t skill they were missing. And it wasn’t strength they were missing. But something was missing. Then, something started to change for them.…

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What does a Bond Collapse Mean to Investors?

The longest con in sports history took place from 1954 to 1972 (19 years). On one side of the con was a self-taught brilliant loner raised by a single working-class mother in Brooklyn, New York and on the other side was the most dominate government on the planet, the Soviet Union. If there ever were…

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The P/E Ratio Just Passed 33 For The Second Time Ever

Burgess asked, in front of our kids, if I wanted to take a Positive Parenting Class. Without much more than a second of silence both kids said, “yes daddy…take the class.” Now that is immediate feedback…AND from the right source. My kids, the humans on the receiving end of my parenting gave me immediate, high…

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Are Bonds Still Safe?

I hate the word therapist, as in, “I have a therapist.” When I hear people say it, I immediately think, what’s wrong with them. Or they must have a problem. Isn’t that interesting? The first thing my brain does is think “they have a problem and not, wow, they want a better life and they’re…

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Investing When The Market Is Falling

Investing when the market is falling

Fathering starts when kids are at their worst. Kids need their dad most at the end of the day…tired and full of emotions from the past twelve hours of life. They need a safe place to, what I call, “off-gas.” To lower their armor and just be. Be seen. Be loved. And be themselves. Because…

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Is it Time to Get Out of Stocks?

is it time to get out of stocks?

Do you want to BE better? Or, do you want to FEEL better?                 I’ve been a dad for ten years and four months… and then seven years ago I became a “double-dad.” I know, “double-dad” is not a term, but it should be. And so should triple-dad and…

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Do Dividends Matter?

reinvest dividends

My grandma and I never got along. My dad’s mom to be exact, let’s call her Dorothy. Two years after my dad was born she gave him up and moved from Kenosha to Chicago. My grandpa didn’t want him either. Abandoned and unwanted.   When my dad went to my grandmas funeral and introduced himself…

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P/E Ratios. Do they matter anymore?

There was a moment when I was 16 that I realized, I was different. Not eye-color or hair-color different. But different. I was raised by three women. When you’re a boy in the Midwest getting raised by three women you act different. See the world differently. And even notice what others can’t… or won’t. I…

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