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Warren Buffett’s Free Investing Advice for YOU

“Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.” –Warren Buffett

That quote is simply amazing because it highlights how ass backwards Wall Street actually is. Buffett is one smart dude, and as an investor it’s those bits of wisdom I always look forward to in the annual letter he pens to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.

The good news is that even if...

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  • Investing Money

Why Wall Street Lies and How You Can Defend Yourself

The job of a financial analyst is simple: They write reports and issue an investment recommendation to either buy, sell, or hold a stock. To me, that sounds like an exciting job that would pay an honest wage. Unfortunately, a guy by the name of Henry Blodget was exposed for all that is not-so-exciting and dishonest about this trade.

Blodget rose to fame during the dot-com years when he predicted the share price of Amazon, a...

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  • Investing Money

A System for Automating Your Personal Finances

Are you one of the people that get a paper paycheck, even though your employer offers direct deposit? Or maybe you get bills sent to you in the mail requiring you to keep track of due dates, write a check out, dig through the junk drawer to find a stamp, and then drop the payment in the outgoing mail, even though you could be receiving paperless statements and automatic bill payment?

In the past, and we’re talking the 1990’s, most of us were wasting hours of our lives handling our personal...

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  • Investing Money

Using Google Spreadsheet to Track a Stock Portfolio

I use a Google Sheet to track my stock portfolio. This is an example of what the spreadsheet looks like. If you just want to download a copy scroll to the bottom of this page.

I chose Google Sheets because it can query Google Finance to pull market data. This helps me identify which stocks in my portfolio are reaching a trigger point where I may want to buy, which I typically base on P/E ratio.

Google...

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Using History Lessons to Create Wealth

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. – George Santayana, from Reason In Common Sense

A classic example of the aforementioned quote is Hitler’s invasion of Russia. Napoleon had done it once and Hitler made the same mistake, suffering the same fate. On both occasions, the Russians simply retreated drawing the enemy further and further into Russia in their advance, and then when the Russian winter struck and the invaders found...

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