Is office work dead? For those who just graduated from high school or college, some of the best work experiences you can get are from being in the office, or restaurant—face to face with your coworkers and customers. You get lessons you can’t learn from a textbook. What I learned at Fidelity Investments in Boston, […]
The Clock is Ticking: You Must Protect Your Family
Originally posted July 20, 2020. If you live anywhere near Chicago/Seattle/Portland, you’re asking me, how much longer will it take for them to come to my neighborhood? Over the last two days alone in Chicago, 63 people were shot, 12 fatally. In Seattle, twelve police officers were hurt in violent protests. And in Portland, the […]
Your Survival Guy: “Life on Main Street Hasn’t Been This Hard in a While”
Are you up to speed with Your Survival Guy? Do you check in daily at www.yoursurvivalguy.com? I’m E.J. Smith, Your Survival Guy. I created www.yoursurvivalguy.com to give Main Street Americans a boots-on-the-ground look at how to protect their most valued assets from natural and manmade disasters. My focus at www.yoursurvivalguy.com is: Retirement investing and planning […]
If You Have a Plan, I Believe You’ll Get to Where You Want to Go
When Your Survival Guy was 12-years old, my family traveled across the country in a 21-foot Winnebago Brave. Winnebago was on to something with the name because we saw the country all right, including the major national and state parks. But we also saw a lot of gas stations and even a few friends for […]
Georgia Proves All Politics Are Local
Voters want to pick a winning horse. The Republican voters of Georgia chose to stick with their incumbent team of Governor Brian Kemp and Attorney General Brad Raffensperger, which may show there’s some bad blood over how Trump handled the Georgia Senate race in 2020. You know what Trump means to me. But Trump the […]
The Virtue of Trump Supporters vs. Antifa and ESG Investing is Like This…
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could invest without the ESG virtue signaling? Well, you can if you own your own stocks, not a mutual fund or ETF. How about someone speaks some truth to the waste of money called ESG? Hold the press. That’s exactly what HSBC executive Stuart Kirk did in a presentation […]
PRIMARIES: Watch GOP Voter Turnout Tonight
It’s a big day for primaries. A number of states are holding elections, including Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, and Minnesota. Texas is holding runoffs from the previous primary in March. Here are some of the biggest races to watch: In Georgia, Senate candidate Herschel Walker is looking to secure his spot as the opponent of Sen. […]
Watch Out for Your Worst Enemy
Looking to get away? As Your Survival Guy, I want you to try to be invisible while traveling abroad. Don’t be the one creating a scene in customs. As Covid rears its ugly head, make sure you’re up to speed on the requirements to enter a country and to return to the U.S. They’re not […]
Job Market Survival Advice for Graduates and for Those YOU Love
Your life is a work in progress. You spend it gathering different skills like a Swiss Army knife. When I was at Babson College, one of the courses we all took was Operations Management. In it, we studied the manufacturing process of how stuff’s made. We looked at raw materials, for example, and the factory […]
BUY THE DIPS? Can You Catch a Ginsu Knife?
You may be wondering, “Buy the dips?” Well, are you good with knives? Because trying to catch a bottom can be painful. And yet, that’s what seems to be happening. Ginsu investors flailing at falling knives with cuts and scrapes like Allstate’s creepy “Mayhem” guy. Bad stuff happens. Deal with it. Markets can be brutal […]
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