Steadfast Finances

 Investing 101         2 comments

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One of my biggest pet peeves with the financial media is the near fixation on one side — the Buy! Buy! Buy! side — of the story.
If an analyst or money manager speaks out with a bearish forecast, it’s a reasonably good bet that you won’t see them …

 Consumer Education         12 comments

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Newsweek’s cover story entitled “Stop Saving Now!“ has altered — more like adulterated — the classic image of Uncle Sam’s military recruitment poster “I Want You” into a spending recruitment post of “I Want You to Start Spending“.
I’m so against this type of irresponsible financial mentality that it irks me …

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If Bill Gates releasing a jar of mosquitoes while giving a presentation on malaria didn’t make you a follower the TEDTalks videos yet, I think the video below might get you started. 
TED, an acronym for Thinking Education Design, is basically a gathering of the worlds brightest minds coming together to share their …

 Auto Sales, Consumer Education         2 comments

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I’ve been fairly quiet about the Big Three Auto Bailout for some time because I really began to feel like I was beating a dead horse.
But this morning, I came across news that General Motors is cutting another 10,000 jobs in the U.S. but investing $1 Billion of federal loans to …

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Niall Ferguson’s popular book, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, made it’s debut as a documentary film tonight via PBS.
I will not bore or insult you by doing a review, because quite honestly, the film is so well done that it would take several days for me to write a review that …

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If you had a gangrenous foot, you would have it amputated.
Wouldn’t you?
Sure, it’s justifiable to be reluctant.  It’s justifiable to be completely scared out of your mind.  After all, what else would you have but fear invading your every thought while you are laying there your hospital bed wondering how …

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Today I ran across an article from the Wall Street Journal saying Maybe There Is an Upside to This Mess, which as the title suggests, is trying to make a lemons to lemonade argument.
While I firmly believe that every crappy situation has lessons to be learned, I couldn’t help but …