Fearless Money

In my third year of successful (25% or greater profit) stock-picking, I thought it was time to add a sidebar widget to show my current investments.
On the right you’ll see where I am currently invested. Most of them are International ETFs and all but one have been making double digit gains for years. […]

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As a new feature, I’m going to begin tracking my investments "In the open." It is a good time to do so, since I’m about to rollover a 401K into an IRA, and I’m starting a new 401K at my new job. This month, I’ll just set the baseline, the interesting bit will be next month.

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Last year was the first year I’ve ever managed to pay myself first! Almost every book tells you to do that, to take a certain percent of your income and sock it away before you pay the rest of your billsI spent much of this lovely Portland day doing my books.

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A few days ago I posted that I made a 21% after-tax profit from my investment/speculation account. I pay a lot of attention to that account, of course, and deliberately do not pay as much attention to my Roth IRA. I prefer a “buy-and-hold” approach in that account. Interestingly, that strategy paid […]

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The PMI Group has released its Q4 2005 report on the housing market, with some interesting statistics.
First, despite all the talk of housing bubbles, the risk doesn’t seem that severe for most of the country. This is along the lines of what Greenspan was trying to say when he talked about there being froth […]

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