Survive & Thrive
2025
Survive and Thrive January 2025: Your Survival Guy’s Predictions for 2025
Dear Survivor,
You know Your Survival Guy isn’t big into making predictions. Everyone’s got them, and when it comes to money, no one remembers you...
Survive and Thrive February 2025: Your Survival Guy Invested a Chunk...
Dear Survivor,
Your Survival Guy invested a chunk of money recently in my dividend-centric portfolio at Fidelity Investments. This is a retirement account. When there’s...
Survive and Thrive March 2025: “I Don’t Understand Bonds,” Says Everybody
Dear Survivor,
“I don’t understand bonds,” says everybody. Which is a shame because bonds are a pretty nice asset to own right about now, as...
2024
Survive and Thrive January 2024: Your Investing Success in 2024 May...
Dear Survivor,
Your success as an investor has much to do with your temperament. It’s more art than science. That’s not coming from me. That’s...
Survive and Thrive February 2024: “It’s My Job” Key West’s Farewell...
Dear Survivor,
Your Survival Guy and Gal were in Key West recently to confirm for New England that the sun still exists. It does. But...
Survive and Thrive March 2024: How You Livin’? Crossing on the...
Dear Survivor,
As my nephew asked me the other day, home from college and all the stuff one learns: “Uncle E, how you livin’?”
“How I’m...
2023
Survive and Thrive January 2023: Stacking Wood and Compounding Money
Dear Survivor,
With Your Survival Guy’s kids home for the weekend, it was the perfect opportunity to stack another cord of wood. Living in New...
Survive and Thrive February 2023: 4 Life Changing Words: “You Should...
Dear Survivor,
Life throws you a curveball when you least expect it. Which is where I found myself recently when I came home from work.
“I’m...
Survive and Thrive March 2023: How Long Have You Been in...
Dear Survivor,
“How long have you been in the investment business?” he asked.
“Most of my adult life,” I said.
“Did you know when you were my...
2022
Survive and Thrive November 2021: Joe Biden is Weaponizing Your 401(k)...
Dear Survivor,
Tired of mandates and government overreach? Want to get away? Well, here’s some news to ruin your 401(k). The Biden administration is pushing...
Survive and Thrive December 2021: Listen Your Survival Guy is not...
Dear Survivor,
Your Survival Guy loves the holidays. But let’s get something out of the way. Your survival food prep should not be considered “free...
Survive and Thrive January 2022: The Least Affordable Housing Market in...
Dear Survivor,
When Boise, Idaho leads the list as “The Least Affordable Housing Market in the U.S.,” something’s not quite right. Don’t get me wrong—Boise...
2021
Survive and Thrive January 2021: Are You Ready for The Great...
Dear Survivor,
In my conversations with you, you’re telling me you want firearms training. And you want to know where to get it. You know...
Survive and Thrive February 2021: Troops in D.C. & Your Authoritarian...
Dear Survivor,
“In the 1600s a series of civilization-threatening plague epidemics gave birth to one of the most heavy-handed surveillance states in the Western world,”...
Survive and Thrive March 2021: America’s Growth Corridors
Dear Survivor,
In 2013, in contrast to the majority of the establishment media, Joel Kotkin wrote that America's future economic growth would be driven by...
2020
Survive and Thrive January 2020: Is Your Cash Safe? Probably not...
Dear Survivor,
How well are you securing your cash and valuables? Do you have a safe at home? A safe is an obvious choice for...
Survive and Thrive February 2020: Escape the City: Live Small, Cheap,...
Dear Survivor,
After decades of urbanization, Americans are beginning to rebel against the "bigger is better" mentality of city-living. Seeking a smaller, more affordable, sustainable,...
Survive and Thrive March 2020: Coronavirus Infects Stock Market
Dear Survivor,
Who loves a market rattling pandemic more than CNBC? It’s a ratings bonanza allowing them to fill the airwaves with 24/7 fear, and when...
2019
Survive and Thrive January: A 2019 Survival Guy Investment Strategy
Dear Reader,
Last year Vanguard GNMA made just under one percent or 0.87% for 2018 as interest payments offset a decline in bond prices from...
Survive and Thrive February 2019: Rush’s “YYZ” and Triangle in the...
Dear Reader,
You know the triangle is a special instrument. It’s small, yet important. Like the cherry on a sundae. It has a place.
But when...
Survive and Thrive March 2019: Do You Have What it Takes...
My March Rage Gauge: Take Inventory of Your Investment Life
My March Rage Gauge is in, and it feels like the calm before the storm....
2018
Survive and Thrive April 2018: Vanguard GNMA and Your Retirement Years
When the financial crisis destroyed the stock market in 2008, guess which fund weathered the storm? You guessed it Vanguard GNMA.
When the tech bust...
Survive and Thrive May 2018: Meet a Long-Time Friend and Advisor:...
You Might be a Mountain Man if…
If you live on a mountain and regularly send pictures of nosy black bears sniffing around your front...
Survive and Thrive June 2018: Knife Attack: Your Survival Guy in...
“Did you hear the gun shots?” a friend asked. “No,” I said.
When the knife attack occurred, we, like many other families on a Saturday...
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