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 […]
Investing
Get Off the Investment Roller Coaster: Have a Plan
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 Are Like Adult Kids: You Don’t Have Much Control Over Them
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 […]
Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season
“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 […]
Remembering Ronald Read Who Died with an $8 Million Fortune
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. […]
SPAC Drama Seizes Faraday
Electric vehicle company, Faraday, has been seized by rumors and drama surrounding its partial acquisition by a SPAC (special purpose acquisition company) earlier this year. Will Feuer reports for MarketWatch: Electric-car startup Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. said Thursday its company leaders are facing death threats and a misinformation campaign as they try to raise money for the […]
Sink Your Teeth into These Bond Yields
“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. […]
You’ve Created Your Own Kingdom, Your Everlasting Life
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 […]
God Save the Queen: To Do Nothing Is the Hardest Job of All
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,” […]
Reap the Windfall of Compounding Your Money
You don’t need to save the world in a day to reap the windfall of compounding money. You can read about Your Survival Guy’s 4 Ways to Your Wealth and teach someone you know about becoming a compounding machine. Saving money on a regular basis is a linear event. Mix in time and interest on […]
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