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How to Keep Your Financial ‘Windfall’ in Six Steps
Jul 29, 2022Most of us have fantasized about gaining unexpected wealth, and all the ways it would change our lives for the better. Unfortunately, managing an actual financial windfall — whether it’s a raise or bonus at work, a large inheritance, or a life-changing lottery jackpot — can be incredibly tricky. You see, when most people unexpectedly come into money, they feel…
Read Full ArticleMeet the ‘Double-Your-Money’ Stock That’ll Give You the Upside of Growth with the Safety of Value
Jul 22, 2022Keith’s note: I have a special treat for you this week. In place of my usual editorial, we’re sharing an exclusive essay from my friend — and TradeSmith Senior Analyst — Mike Burnick. If you’re not familiar, Mike is a 30-year market veteran and world-class analyst who joined the TradeSmith team last winter. And when it comes to finance and investing,…
Read Full Article5 Investing Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making, Plus Tips to Work Around Them
Jul 15, 2022As investors, we’re often our own worst enemies. We like to believe that we make rational decisions with our money. Unfortunately, research shows we often fall victim to common, subconscious errors in thinking known as “cognitive biases.” I covered one of the most dangerous of these biases — loss aversion — in detail in a previous Money Talks issue. (If…
Read Full ArticleIt’s Time to Outsmart the Bear – And These Four Strategies Will Help You Do It
Jul 08, 2022I’m generally not a fan of the mainstream financial media. And with good reason. The news organizations whose headlines help create the “buzz” that revs up public opinion and inflames social media for the most part just “report” (repeat) what others say – because they’re not the experts themselves. You believe you’re getting special, insider insights – actionable and wealth-focused….
Read Full ArticleWhy You Are Limiting Your Returns, And How to Work Around Yourself
Jul 01, 2022Most of us like to think we’re rational. When presented with a choice, we generally use logic and reason to make the best decision possible with the information available to us. Right? Well, heaps of research into human behavior says otherwise. Most of us tend to be far more emotional and susceptible to “cognitive biases” – common, subconscious errors in…
Read Full ArticleDoubling My Money Turned Out to Be a Curse, and I Want to Save You from a Similar Fate
Jun 24, 2022I am a brilliant investor. At least, that’s what I thought at the time… It was the late 1990s. I had saved about $20,000 from different jobs that I had worked through the years, and I was in college when my father called me up and said, “Let’s each put $5,000 into Legg Mason’s Value Trust fund.” My father’s a…
Read Full ArticleHere’s a Rare Chance to Beat Inflation and Earn 9.62% Without Taking Big Risks
Jun 17, 2022The U.S. was blindsided recently when inflation got an unexpected bump to 8.6%, the highest rate in 40 years. Then, on Monday, we officially entered bear market territory. It’s time for investors to rethink their moneymaking strategy and pivot into protection mode — and I have just the thing: A new investment vehicle that’s actually designed to help you beat…
Read Full Article7 Tips That Real Investors Follow
Jun 10, 2022Let me tell you a story… One of my managers (let’s call him Rex) was out with his son after baseball practice on a recent Friday evening and pulled into the drive-thru at the local McDonald’s. What happened next stunned me. Rex pulled his Ford up to that big, lighted menu and ordered a Big Mac, two large fries, a…
Read Full ArticleMy Best Advice for Navigating Today’s Volatile Markets
Jun 03, 2022Money Talks launched in early 2021 with one simple goal in mind: to give back and share the best of what I’ve learned about personal finance and investing over many years of trials and tribulations. In that spirit, I wanted to pass along an interview I did with my friend Dan Ferris on the Stansberry Investor Hour podcast last week….
Read Full ArticleIs Big Tech as Cheap as It Seems? Maybe, Maybe Not…
May 27, 2022If you have been following the financial news at all this year, you’ve likely heard about the historic declines in large-cap technology stocks. For example, the Nasdaq 100 Index (NDX) — a proxy for “big tech” that includes the roughly 100 largest non-financial stocks that trade on the Nasdaq Stock Market — has fallen as much as 31% from its…
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