Investing

Happy Monday from Your Survival Guy. What a weekend. Weather-wise a rainout, which is a shame because it was Newport’s Concours & Motor Week—celebrating the history of sportsmanship and motoring. Your Retirement Life: The New Mustang Arrives Here was the forecast Sunday morning: “Gale Warning in Effect through Monday Morning, at 7:02am EDT Sunday Oct. […]

Your Survival Guy is never surprised about these headlines during troubled markets. Here’s a beauty from yesterday in the WSJ, “Pension Strategy Left Funds Vulnerable to Rate Increases.” Apparently, pension managers were using leverage and collateral to hedge against rate increases, but when the collateral loses value, margin calls come a-knockin’. And like clockwork, when […]

You know emotions can wreak havoc on investors. Feeling good or bad about investments shouldn’t be a month-to-month roller coaster. But in my conversations with you, I know you’re reading that the so-called experts are calling for more doom and gloom. They’ve been making this call for years now. Even a broken clock is right—you […]

Prices. They’re like adult kids. We don’t have much control over ‘em. What do we do with them? I’ll tell you. Tough love hurts. Spend less, save more. Become an independent inflation fighter. Because inflation means different things to different people. A new iPhone isn’t as important to me as, say, it is to someone […]

“Do you see the waves crashing over that rock dead ahead?” my dad said loud enough for me to hear over the 25-knot winds and 7-foot waves crashing over our bow. “Yes, got it,” I said. “We’re good on this heading. We can round that red can up about a quarter mile ahead.” “It’s at […]

Do you remember our old friend Ronald Read who died in Brattleboro, VT, in 2015 with an $8 million fortune? “He lived modestly, working as a maintenance worker and janitor at a J.C. Penney store after a long stint at a service station that was owned in part by his brother,” writes Anna Prior in The WSJ. […]

“Red sky in morn, sailors take warn,” goes the saying. On this morning, the sun was as red as a lollipop, the kind that turns your tongue so red you want to show it to whoever’s next to you. Your Survival Guy heard it’s the dust, spun up from the wind, reflecting off the sun. […]

What can we learn about lifelong wealth from the passing of Queen Elizabeth II? For one, as I wrote to you yesterday, “to do nothing is the hardest job of all.” If you think about your lifelong endeavor of compounding, like I most certainly do in my life, then you rise above the day-to-day noise […]

Last night, Becky and I watched episode four, season 1 of The Crown on Netflix as we honor the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. During the episode, a blanket of fog covers the streets of London, overwhelming hospital beds with residents gasping for air. Prime Minister Winston Churchill is under immense pressure to “do something,” […]