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Aspiring Investors: Getting Started in the Stock Market

Leave a Comment / Stock Market / By Tim McMahon

The fear of a missed opportunity, if the stock market does indeed continue to rise throughout 2021, is often a powerful motivator to the new investor. Although starting out is relatively easy, navigating the various pitfalls of investment can be an extremely intricate challenge without the right knowledge to back you up. In his classic book “Influence” Robert Cialdini lists “fear of loss” as an extremely powerful motivator, so we must be cautious in the face of the temptation to jump in with “both feet” without knowing what we are getting ourselves into. Here are some tips for anyone wishing to act upon their interest in the stock market.

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Mutual Funds

1 Comment / Mutual Funds / By Tim McMahon

A mutual fund pools money from many individuals and/or corporations to purchase investments. Mutual funds have many advantages over buying individual securities. The major advantages of mutual funds are diversification, liquidity, and professional management.

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What We Can Learn from the Crisis In Cyprus

Leave a Comment / Banking, Europe / By Guest Contributor

Often we take the ability to access our funds in the bank for granted. But it wasn’t always this way. Throughout history, there have been runs on the bank. People fear that they won’t be able to get their money out and all rush to the bank at once to try to get theirs first.

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Market Psychology and Eliminating Freedom

Leave a Comment / Government / By Casey Research

This week two major court cases chipped away at our 4th amendment rights one by the Indiana courts and another by the U.S. Supreme court. Pretty soon they might as well just cross out the 4th amendment because it will be totally meaningless. In the Indiana case, the court ruled that it is against the law to resist officers trying to enter your residence even if they don’t have a warrant and are entering illegally. In the Supreme Court Case, they ruled that officers could enter a house without a warrant and subsequently arrest the occupants if they heard noises that made them assume that evidence was being destroyed. In the following article, David Galand addresses the herd mentality and why we as freedom-loving Americans are putting up with this, how it affects our investments and what we can do about it.

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Do You Need to Know Financial Trends to Plan for Retirement?

1 Comment / Wealth Creation / By Tim McMahon

By Tim McMahon, editor When planning for retirement, most financial planners make a lot of assumptions about financial trends and how much money you will spend per year. They estimate the average inflation rate, the average return on your investments etc. all in order to estimate how much you will need in order to retire. The problem

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Go Global, Before It’s Too Late

Leave a Comment / Investing / By Casey Research

If you have significant assets to protect, you need to begin a course of serious study as to your options. Buying property overseas is one approach you can take; another is to research securing another passport and look into off-shore trusts and LLCs. In all cases, keep caveat emptor in mind.

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Diversification Doesn’t Work… Anymore

Leave a Comment / Investing / By Tim McMahon

Investors have been told for years that diversification lowers risk. While that may be true in certain instances, it certainly isn’t true in the current world equity market. Let me give you an example: Using five ETF’s as a proxy for “BRICA” the five supposedly up and coming economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and

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