To really start investing in the stock market you have to do two things: 1) you need to find good companies, and 2) you need to know how to find their ticker symbols. Both of these things can seem Continue Reading
What Would You Use For Money ?
I remember reading stories of people being upset that Europeans paid Native American Indians in 'beads' and such for things that were 'worth' much more. However, the Indians were generally satisfied Continue Reading
How to Get On the Path to Financial Freedom
In our culture we are presented with many prerogatives and choices (‘freedoms’, if you will). In this discussion I’d like to focus on the ‘financial freedom(s)’ subset of this. Unfortunately ‘freedom’ Continue Reading
Helpless Female Learns Interesting Tidbits About Writing a Legal Will and Power of Attorney Documents
I always knew everyone was "advised" to have a will. However, just thinking about it felt like stepping into a quagmire in the middle of a legal jungle. I would be sinking in the muck of trying to Continue Reading
Snapshot Stock Market Evaluation for the Inexperienced and Timid
I am a kitchen table investor. And you know there are a lot of other things going on at the kitchen table, too. I am responsible for most of them. Life swirls with the kitchen table as it's focal Continue Reading
One Mother’s Journey in Discovering Economics: Finance Accounting with the 36 Hour McGraw-Hill Course Book
After accidentally becoming exposed to the true nature of economics a few years ago, I determined to teach my children about this oft neglected subject. We began with Thomas Sowell's book Basic Continue Reading
Profile of an Investor – A Lesson in Passing on Money Management Skills to Your Children
(This is a true story, but names have been withheld to protect privacy) When Mr. X was a boy, his dad was a business owner who worked hard 6 days a week. By this example, the children were taught Continue Reading
The Pitfalls of Government Subsidized Stock Market Investments
It's done all the time. A word that you thought you knew the definition to is taken and applied to a certain thing, in order to lull people into feeling warm fuzzies about what is really a power play Continue Reading
Is Investment Income from the Stock Market Free Money?
There is no such thing as free money. There may be fake money or stolen money, both of which affect the value of whatever is being used as money. But no money is free. There really is no "free" Continue Reading
Profile of an Investor – Perspectives of a 16 Year Old Girl on a Boise AAII Meeting
Recently I accompanied my mother, for the second time, to an investors meeting. The meeting is an exchange of information among a group of people who are investing, or want to learn about investing Continue Reading
