Get 2019 off on the right foot and bring some peace of mind to your portfolio. One way to help clear your mind is to get out of the prediction business. Lot’s of words are wasted this time of year with articles predicting the future. Don’t let them mess up your voyage. I want you to imagine that you’re in the midst of a months long Atlantic crossing. Your job is to trim the sails and hold your course, and yes watch the weather. But now is not the time to re-outfit your ship simply because it's January. It's an emotional time of year. Don't let it get the best of you. Take a deep … [Read more...]
Tucker: Leaders Acting Like Day Traders
Tucker Carlson hits the nail on the head when talking about America’s leaders and power brokers. Prompted by the former equity fund boss Mitt Romney's editorial in the Washington Post, Tucker makes the case that leaders in Washington D.C. and on Wall Street aren’t ruling for the happiness of the people they serve on Main Street. Quite the contrary. They are mercenaries. They are day traders. They act like substitute teachers with no obligation to you—just passing through. They have no skin in the game. As long as they get theirs, to hell with the rest of you. … [Read more...]
A 2019 Survival Guy Investment Strategy
Last year Vanguard GNMA made just under one percent or 0.87% for 2018 as interest payments offset a decline in bond prices from rising interest rates. As I’ve written to you before, you don’t want to be in the interest rate prediction business. You simply want to collect your interest payments and let the chips fall as they may. When you near retirement your success as an investor depends on a nine to five mentality—work nine to five to steadily save money for retirement and invest to keep what you’ve saved. It’s that simple. A survival guy investment strategy helps you to win the war … [Read more...]
Tucker: Gun Ownership is America’s Most Endangered Right
In the video clip below, Tucker Carlson talks with author David Harsanyi about Americans' rights to own firearms, and attempts to limit that right. Harsanyi has recently written a book called, First Freedom: A Ride Through America's Enduring History with the Gun. The segment is informative, because it's important for all Americans to understand the value of their right to bear arms, and the critical protection of that right afforded by the Second Amendment to the Constitution. I have written a series titled Get Your Gun and Your Training Now, in which I encourage all Americans to take … [Read more...]
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! Here's a great review on the Kel-Tec KSG from The Hunting Gear Guy. … [Read more...]
Is America Really the Land of the Free?
Americans are generally in agreement that their country is free. America is even referred to as "The Land of the Free," but is it really? According to the Human Freedom Index published by the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute, and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, America falls in at 17th place on The Human Freedom Index. According to the study, New Zealand takes top honors with high levels of personal and economic freedom making it the world's top ranked nation for freedom. The index ranks countries by measuring citizens' freedom in regard to: Rule of Law Security … [Read more...]
American Municipalities Offer Less Info, More Debt
You might think that after the blunders of the recent past, public borrowers would have learned the lessons of 2008, but that would be wrong. Rather than increasing the information available, municipalities are providing less transparency to lenders. Gunjan Banerji and Heather Gillers write in The Wall Street Journal: U.S. cities and counties are using fewer ratings to assess the risks of the bonds they sell, providing investors with just one opinion on an increasing amount of new debt. Roughly 25% of the dollar value of all municipal debt issued this year carried a single grade from one … [Read more...]
In Retirement Stop Working, Start Earning. Here’s How
Despite the recent market turbulence, there is one group of investors who have so far been insulated by good decisions they made long ago. Dividend investors have collected their payments regularly, as those who invested looking to sell to the "greater fool," in the future have been tossed on a sea of volatility. If you are serious about a retirement portfolio you can count on, making dividends and income a central focus in your investment plan would be a great start. You shouldn't have to work throughout your retirement, and you should have a portfolio of investments that earns year … [Read more...]
Calls to Boycott Tucker Carlson are Absurd
Writing at The Federalist, Emily Jashinsky explains the absurdity of the calls to boycott Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News over statements he made in a segment he performed on the migrant caravan and its trashing of Tijuana. Jashinsky writes: At no point did Carlson describe people as inherently dirty, nor have his critics actually refuted the claim in question, of which I’m not at all qualified to evaluate the veracity. But it hardly seems unreasonable for Carlson to queue up a segment with a guest prepared to discuss the caravan “trashing” the streets of Tijuana by asserting that an effect … [Read more...]
The Dangers of Being Unemployed and Older
It's harder for older workers who have lost their jobs to get back to work. According to Ruth Simon in The Wall Street Journal "Nearly eight million older Americans are out of work or stuck in low-quality jobs." The problem with unemployment at an older age is the lack of time to make up for any mistakes. With retirement age right around the corner, you should be packing away as much savings as possible. Those years should be your peak earning years as well, but unfortunately, some older workers who have lost their jobs are still struggling to find new ones. The sad reality is that when … [Read more...]
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