Please enjoy this 1-minute video (for those receiving this by email: please click on the blog title line above). The concept of Standard of Individual Living, what I call your SOIL, is discussed and how it is “individual” because your lifestyle is unique only to you. Connecting today’s SOIL to your retirement SOIL, is critical […]
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1-minute video: The Source of the Cost of Delaying Savings
Please enjoy this 1-minute video (for those receiving this by email: please click on the blog title line above). “Stacking” refers the the fact that each contribution you make, at different times, have different timeframes in which they grow by compounding. Thus, each contribution has different outcomes. This fact is rarely discussed so that people realize […]
1-minute video: About Better Financial Education
Please enjoy this 1-minute video (for those receiving this by email: please click on the blog title line above). More on the flying analogy in the video and how it, and my military flying experience, relates to planning and investing. // Larry’s Bio My 1-minute video series on YouTube. My Knowledge Center video library. How […]
What fear can teach us
Your Fears are the stories you tell yourself … the outline of fear mirrors the outline for story telling. Here are some key points Karen makes in the video below. Fears focus on a fundamental question … what will happen next? The answer often focuses on the story about all the things that might happen […]
Pandemics and Your Money.
Pandemics, like the diseases themselves, run their course. The coronavirus will also run its course, as will its impact on global markets. This article isn’t about COVID-19, though it is important to know What to do if your sick … by the CDC. Rather this piece is about human nature and investing, and by extension, […]
The true source and cost of delaying savings
What is the true source for the cost of delayed savings, or the cost of waiting? Most articles focus on the lost dollars, which is true. But why are those dollars lost? Please read the insert below (and a link to the post in case those who get these by email can’t access the embedded […]
Happiness and investing? Can you do both?
The Happiness Equation, as it relates to investing, is an interrelationship between your perceptions and expectations of investing and events. How do you manage happiness when you can’t manage the markets or the events that influence the markets? The inserted article below explains. The happiness equation from Better Financial Education Note: Your […]
The Markets: Who Buys When People are Selling?
You may hear, when markets get “volatile,” that there are more sellers than buyers. Can that even happen? What does that phrase even mean? BTW, you hear it too in any market, including the real estate market. The article below, “A Question of Equilibrium,” explains the basics of how buyers and sellers always agree on […]
9 Key Questions as an investor to ask yourself
The time for reflection comes to all of us at one time or another. These are 9 key questions an investor should ask themselves. This is not an exhaustive list, rather one that gets to the meat of the matter. The questions and answers are timeless, applying all the time. What sort of competition do […]
Record highs (at anytime) means what exactly?
With stock indices continuing to set new highs, does this mean negative returns for stocks are on the horizon? If prices increasing over time was a troubling development, what would be the point of investing at all? You would think investors would realize there is no potential for future gain, and not invest. So why do […]