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Re: “It’s not the right TIME to invest”
Is investing really all about timing? You wait for the right time: corrections, recessions, pull-backs, blow-ups, and inflection points. Then, BAM—you make hay, and get out. Do it again and again. That's how investing works, right? Clichés like "time in the market,...
Flipping Off The “Average Return”
Unmet expectations cause us distress. At times we lose perspective. When things are going well, we bask in the warm sunshine of +20% returns. But when it temporarily and inevitably floods worst-case -30% returns, we forget there are seasons. Return seasons. Sorry,...
Understanding Poverty Can Help You Become Wealthy
What really keeps people in poverty? Is it the same self-destructive patterns that hold us back, whether we’re poor, middle class, or wealthy? Are we all really not that different? Isn't a foundation of wealth built and lost in the day-in-day-out decision making...
Cutting Off 4 Fingers for a “Rule of Thumb”
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly—as that a sentence must never end with a particle—and perceive how implicitly even the learned obey it, I think: "Any fool can make a rule, And any fool will mind it." - ...
The Best Advice You Never Received
So…What do you actually do for me? Before I launched MARGIN almost two years ago, an obsessive quest began: What were my peers really delivering to clients? Not just their marketed online services. Not just the lip service of their pitches. Not just their portfolio...
Fast Food Financial Planning
Welcome back! I haven't written you in a while, but I promise there's a few good reasons: As you see, we've revamped our site! Check out our new complexity based flat- fee structure (for current clients, nothing is changing for now). We've also added the story behind...
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What Next? A Harvard PhD Virologist Interview on the Coronavirus
On March 12th at 3PM MST, I had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Michelle Arnold, a virologist who earned her PhD from Harvard. In her current role, she works at LSU Health in Shreveport as an Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology. Michelle does not...
You’re not thinking; you’re just being logical
As Niels Bohr (Danish physicist, philosopher and Nobel Laureate) apparently once told Einstein, ‘You are not thinking; you are merely being logical.’ With apologies to logic (and my overly stoic friends) Sorry Seneca, Aurelius, and Aristotle, humanity’s greatest...
The BEST Investment Newsletter
This post was inspired by investors who tell me they use a newsletter to pick stocks, that diversification is for losers, and it's easy to beat the market. Here's a case study in what happens when you follow financial newsletters sent straight to your front door....
“The market” is NOT your portfolio
Years ago, a client sent me an e-mail. It simply stated: “Us down, the market up, why?” Why am I underperforming the ubiquitous “market”? I blame financial media. Fox. CNBC. MSNBC. Barron's. Bloomberg. Money. Forbes. Dave Ramsey. Suze Orman. All of ‘em, for giving...
Re: “It’s not the right TIME to invest”
Is investing really all about timing? You wait for the right time: corrections, recessions, pull-backs, blow-ups, and inflection points. Then, BAM—you make hay, and get out. Do it again and again. That's how investing works, right? Clichés like "time in the market,...
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