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GF¢ 021: My Investing Journey – How I Got Started Investing
How I got started investing. People get overwhelmed with investing because they don’t know how; they’ve never had an example, or parents, family, or friends who have shown them how. This podcast will...
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50 Experts Share Their First Investment Ever
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” ~ Zig Ziglar To be good at anything, you have to first get started. This applies to investing as well. Before I made my first...
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Grow Your Dough Update (May Update)
I am not a stock picker. When I came up with the bright idea of starting the Grow Your Dough throw down, I had a haunting suspicion that I would lose. Why, you ask? Because I absolutely suck at picking...
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Grow Your Dough Throwdown (Mid-Year Update)
It’s time for another Grow Your Dough Throwdown update. We’ve reached the midway point, and the competition is definitely heating up. The Dow Jones shows no sign of letting go, hitting that phenomenal...
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GF¢ 035: How to Invest a Million Dollars (without blowing it like a rockstar)
They say you have a 1 in 10,000,000 chance of winning the lottery. Well, today is my lucky day, because I just won – yeah baby!! Okay….maybe I didn’t actually win. We’re just going to pretend I did for...
View ArticleThe Right Time to Buy Stock Is…..
It never fails. Anytime a new investor wants to get started investing, they always want to buy stock. Always. Doesn’t matter that they’ve never invested before. Doesn’t matter that they have no idea...
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Grow Your Dough Throwdown – It’s Almost Done! (October Update)
The Grow Your Dough Throwdown is almost over (sigh). It’s been a fun challenge, and it’s been exciting to see how my different portfolios have held up. **You can check out the original announcement...
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The Simple Way to Find Out How Much Investing Risk You Can Stomach
Risk is everywhere. All I have to do is turn on the news to be reminded of that. I think it’s easy to go about our day-to-day lives and forget that bad things can happen – until suddenly they do....
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Want to Win $2,500 of Apple Stock?
I’m an Apple fanboy. A few years ago I got my first Macbook Pro and I haven’t looked back. If you were to visit the Rose household, you would see that the entire family is on the Apple bandwagon with 1...
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Grow Your Dough Throwdown Final Results
I can’t believe the Grow Your Dough Throwdown is over! It’s been an exhilarating ride, and I wish I could say that I was excited to share the results. Alas, my portfolio got its butt kicked, while my...
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Grow Your Dough Throwdown 2.0
It’s back….. Just when you thought the Grow Your Dough Throwdown was done, we’re back for another year. Ahhh yeah…. It’s time for Grow Your Dough Throwdown 2.0. I had a blast throwing down with my...
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11 Ways to Invest $100,000 with Confidence
A cool $100,000 hits your checking account. Good day. Before you go bananas and buy a Tesla with automatic lane-changing capabilities, please take a deep breath – for my sake. The last thing I want to...
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What the Heck is a Hedge Fund?
Am I the only that thinks of Sonic the Hedgehog when I hear the term “hedge fund”? Hedge funds are the mystery players in the investment universe. We hear a lot about them, but few of us ever have any...
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15 Ways to Invest $10,000
Do you remember the first time you wrote a check for $100? The first $100 check I wrote was for my cell phone waaayyy back in 1997. Whoa….that brings back memories. What about your first, $1,000...
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Are Annuities a Good Investment? The Good, Bad, and Real Ugly
Annuities. You may have heard investment advisors – or insurance advisors – talk about them in the past. In fact, earlier I described several reasons you should and shouldn’t buy annuities. If you...
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How One Woman Paid Over $3,500 in Variable Annuity Fees and Didn’t Even Know It
“I think I’m paying around $50 per year.” That’s what I heard from one woman who actually paid a lot more on a variable annuity. A whole lot more. If you haven’t guessed it yet, I’m not a big fan of...
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Investing AND Borrowing Through Lending Club
Lending Club has been sweeping the investment world – and the borrowing universe – at the same time. And why not? Who wouldn’t be interested in a financial facility that enables investors to earn more...
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16 Ways to Invest $100
You have a crisp, new one hundred-dollar bill in your wallet. While it’s not $1,000,000, $100,000, or $10,000, hey, at least it’s something! Listen up. Just because you don’t have much money to invest...
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Investing AND Borrowing Through Prosper
Want to know how to avoid your bank? If so, read on….. Founded in 2005, Prosper is the first peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplace in the US. Since it began, it has funded loans totaling more than $3 billion...
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10 Awful 401(k) No-No’s You Should Avoid
Me: “Who helped you select the funds in your 401(k)?” Client: “Ummm…..I just picked a few options really quick.” Me: “How much time did you spend researching what you picked?” Client: “I didn’t.” Me:...
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