You may have recently read the incredible story of the survival of four children, one only 11 months old, who survived after their plane went down in the Colombian jungle, killing their mother and the other adults on board. If you haven’t heard the story, Fox News’s Brie Stimson reports the details, writing: Four children […]
Investing
Starved for Fixed Income?
You can sink your teeth into today’s yields. But don’t let the search for the perfect time to get in weigh you down. I’m not in the prediction business, but in a couple of years, investors may regret a strategy that simply rolls over 3-month bills with no escape plan. Action Line: When you need […]
Investing Mistakes to Avoid: #10 Picked Off First
Your Survival Guy has compiled a list of investing mistakes to avoid. It’s a list for highly successful, fairly wealthy investors. Today’s lesson is what I refer to as “Picked off first.” Do not get picked off first base. When you have some money, or in my example, get a hit, you need to protect […]
RAGE Gauge June: Remember When You Were A Kid and Money Was Free?
Remember when you were a kid, and money was free? Neither do I. And yet there’s a generation of kids/young adults looking for a home to buy, shocked at how much a mortgage costs. Money isn’t supposed to be free. It’s a product just like a Starbucks latte or avocado toast. You buy it. And […]
How Does Wall St. Push Companies to “Go Woke?”
The customer backlash that recently hit Anheuser-Busch and Target after their marketing departments decided to embrace woke ideology is, according to one former Anheuser-Busch employee, forced on the companies by Wall Street. Fox News reports on the former Anheuser-Busch executive’s view of “woke corporate governance.” Charles Creitz writes for Fox News: Woke corporate governance, which […]
Your Survival Guy’s Take on ChatGPT and AI
You learned yesterday how Your Survival Guy became Larry the Cable Guy. Life comes at you fast. Buckle up. One second, you’re enjoying a cup of joe with Mom and Dad, and the next, you’re making friends with call center reps far, far away. I thought technology, AI, etc. was supposed to make life easier. […]
Concentrate on Dividend Record and Compounding
UPDATE 6.6.23: Gwynn Guilford is warning readers of The Wall Street Journal to “get ready for the full-employment recession.” She writes: Usually, employment plummets during recessions because as factories, offices and restaurants produce less, they need fewer workers. That clearly isn’t happening. “If you look at the early 2000s, that was what was called a […]
ALLIGATOR MARKET: Calm Surface Hides Danger Below
The S&P 500 is a market cap-weighted index meaning the largest companies by market cap have the greatest impact on its direction. A handful of companies comprise a third of the index today. I explained this in-depth in my series, The Truth Behind the S&P 500. Caitlin McCabe explains in The Wall Street Journal that […]
Successful Investing Is a Mindset
Dick Young wrote in the October 2015 issue of Intelligence Report: As you know, I do not check the prices of my investments daily, weekly, or even monthly. I do an annual checkup only at tax time. When I make a significant investment, I have no intention of liquidation anytime soon. I am in […]
My Nephew Graduates, and I’m Larry the Cable Guy
Happy Monday. Your Survival Guy’s nephew graduated from Tabor Academy Friday. We celebrated in his hometown, Mattapoisett, MA, where my parents live and where I grew up. It was a gorgeous night dining on Turk’s Seafood overlooking the harbor from my parents’ second floor deck. The classic cars, a Friday night summer tradition, were […]
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