Posted by Don on January 1, 2010
We have heard about inflation over the last year, but when will we see it? I believe you already have begun seeing it in the 10 Yr. Treasury rate. This is the same thing Gold and the other commodities have told us. Unfortunately the bond bullies are telling the US government that they are going [...]
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Posted by Don on December 28, 2009
In an article written a while back I discussed the rule of 72 and how high yielding stocks could help smooth out returns in a down market. I talked about a REIT that I had purchased at almost double the current price, but due to the large yield I was receiving I had actually earned [...]
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Posted by Don on November 21, 2009
Lending Club has announced a No-Fee IRA that can be opened with them. You now can open a self directed IRA thru EntrustCANA that will allow you to invest that IRA in Lending Club notes and also will allow you to invest in many other types of investments also.
Lending Club has an average return of [...]
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Posted by Don on November 18, 2009
Well no one likes to be wrong, but it looks like I was when I called for a double top last week. The S&P 500 broke thru the 1100 level to close at 1109 and then held the 1100 level yesterday. This should give us another leg up until we run into resistance at about [...]
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Posted by Don on November 12, 2009
Lending Club has increased their new account bonus to $40 when invited by an existing member. If you have ever thought about opening a lending club account you should look into it. Average returns for social lending at Lending Club are 9.67%.
If anyone is interested contact me at contact@keepmydollar.com and I will send [...]
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Posted by admin on November 9, 2009
Anyone who has money invested 401-K please re-balance your portfolio now. Please, for your peace of mind, remember where you were at 1 year ago. Take some profits and have some cash ready, because I believe that we are getting ready to top out.
Oh sure everyone is on board with the rally, but seriously is [...]
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The Carnival of Personal Finance is up and running again this week at Canadian Finance Blog.
I have only had time to read two of the articles so far, but be sure to go and check out all the articles on the carnival. There are multiple topics and some of the best bloggers on the web [...]
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Posted by admin on November 8, 2009
Having heard about Lending Club on several other blogs I recently opened an account. I had previously had an account with Prosper.Com, however I had never funded it because at the time I opened it they would only allow funding from a bank account.
My reasons for choosing Lending Club was mostly that I could fund [...]
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Posted by Don on November 6, 2009
I gave a theory of mine a couple of weeks ago in my article, High unemployment here to stay for a while, regarding how in my opinion a lot of managers use layoffs as a means of letting go their least productive employees. The Productivity numbers for the third quarter came out today and it’s [...]
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Posted by Don on November 2, 2009
The Carnival of Personal Finance #229 has gone live at The Centsible Life and has included my article Simplicity leads to wealth.
From my reviews thus far the following are my favorites, but I have only read roughly half of them.
Extending the $8000 First Time Home Buyers Tax Credit into 2010 is a Terrible Idea [...]
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