Steadfast Finances

 Business Trends, Consumer Education, Market Themes, Strategic Planning         8 comments

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Now that the Greater Fool Decade is over, I thought I would dust off my prognosticator hat and do a little strategic planning since we just experienced the stock market’s second worst performing decade ever.
Here are a few of my top, and relatively simple, investing themes for 2010 that will …

 Dividend Investing, ETFs, Index Funds, Investing 101         1 comment

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Have you noticed that everyone seems more interested in the esoteric, out of the ordinary types of investments these days?
I have.
Some people might want to buy gold because they’re caught up in the fear trade, or others might want to buy raw commodities like oil or natural gas because they’re …

 Investing 101, Investor Psychology         10 comments

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Much like everyone else, Wall Street experiences the same basic emotions that all (or most) of us feel when news of an impending disaster (real or fearmongering) strikes.
Why?
Because there are real life human beings pushing the mouse buttons that execute the buy or sell orders during every minute of every …

 Commodities, Financial Crisis         6 comments

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As if things couldn’t get worse, how does additional price increases at the grocery store sound for 2009?
Many California farmers will allow their farmland to sit idle this year because they simply can’t get enough water, or get adequate bank financing, to grow their crops.
What’s the problem?  [see videos below]

Drought …

 Energy crisis         1 comment

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Normally I consider American politics about as entertaining and blog worthy as whales humping on The Discovery Channel.  But…
I recently stumbled across a quick 4 minute video on Presidential speeches (pre and post election) documenting just how worthless political rhetoric really is when it comes to Presidential candidates making promises …

 Energy crisis, Gas Prices, Market Themes         11 comments

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Three months ago all I heard was speculators this and speculators that.  Every financial news program I watched on a daily basis went out of their way to include the phrase “oil speculator” just to get a rise out of us.
And most people lapped it up like crazy!  Especially when …