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Semi Annual Exercise Mid 2014
An encouraging characteristic of good habits, rituals, and regular exercises is that their descriptions and rationales don’t change. Welcome to my semi-annual review of my stocks, and an introduction that hasn’t changed much so copy and paste helps me balance … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, consultant, consulting, credit card, debt, Dream. Invest. Live., economy, entrepreneur, frugality, GERN, Geron, GIG, GigOptix, health care, investing, Investor Village, LTBH, markets, Microvision, Motley Fool, MVIS, non-profit, personal finance, Peter Lynch, Real Goods Solar, Retirement, RGSE, RSOL, Silicon Investor, speaker, stocks, wealth
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Replacing Housing Anxiety With Mortgage Relief
Relief – and it has only just begun. After a series of phone calls and emails I finally received the mortgage modification package that means I get to keep my house, my home. That’s what I hoped was in the … Continue reading
But Not Yet
As I begin typing, we are less than eight hours away from the Summer Solstice, the beginning of summer (north of the Equator), the farthest the planet gets away from the Sun, and maybe the beginning of much better times. … Continue reading
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Tagged bitcoin, community, consulting, cryptocurrency, debt, entrepreneur, frugality, housing, Intelligent Optimist, investing, Microvision, mortgage, MVIS, personal finance, photos, seed funding, stocks, writing, yes magazine
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Social Media Really
Why? Why Like, Follow, Plus, Connect, or Subscribe to someone? Why not? It’s free, isn’t it? It’s worthless, isn’t it? Skip the pleas from Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, and WordPress and Blogger. They aren’t free, really. They aren’t worthless, … Continue reading
Full Speed Days
Ironies abound. Here I am, blogging about balancing life and money, wrote a book about it (Dream. Invest. Live.), am a case study in another one (Your Money or Your Life), and I’m launching into the last task of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Charity, Dream. Invest. Live., frugal, Just Keep Pedaling, mortgage, personal finance, writing, YMOYL, Your Money or Your Life
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Trends Shifting Stalwarts
Conventional wisdom held that investing in the stalwarts, the old blue chips, was the way to safely invest. Dull but successful. The market continues to hit new highs, mostly through the action of the biggest companies, that are more a … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, banking, bitcoin, climate change, cryptocurrencies, debt, decentralized, futurist, GERN, GIG, housing, investing, millennials, mortgage, MVIS, off the grid, off-grid, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer lending, personal finance, Retirement, RGSE, singularity, stocks, tiny house, Tiny Houses, urbanization
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I Think I Accept Bitcoins
I gave up trying to buy a BitCoin. I got a wallet instead; and I’m glad, even though it is empty. Welcome to the land of cryptocurrencies where of course you need a cryptowallet for your cryptocoins. Cryptocurrencies are intriguing. … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, auroracoin, bitcoin, consulting, cryptocurrency, Dogecoin, entrepreneur, Iceland, Kris Krug, MazaCoin, personal finance, photos, potcoin, Whidbey
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Corporations Meet Owners MVIS 2014
People crave stories, poems, plays on words. Analysts crave data. Investors deal in both. Investors in startups have so little data to pick from that investing becomes speculating. When words are the main source of information, it is best to … Continue reading
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Tagged Individual investor, investing, Investor Village, LTBH, Microvision, Motley Fool, MVIS, personal finance, stocks, wealth
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Sustaining Small Town Charity
They are among us, and that is good. The things that are closest to us are easiest to overlook. Where I live the economy continues along uncertainly. Some businesses are thriving. Others are shuttering. Many live on a knife edge. … Continue reading
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Tagged Boomers, Charity, Clinton, Coupeville, entrepreneur, Freeland, Greenbank, inheritance, jobs, Langley, library, millenials, non-profit, Oak Harbor, philanthropy, Sno-Isle, unemployment, wealth, Whidbey
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Society Accidentally Diversifies
Us versus Them. That’s a familiar theme; yet we know there are grey areas between the two. Finance is the same. There are “The Big Institutions” and “the rest of Us.” Alternative economies try to make clear distinctions, but if … Continue reading
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Tagged AirBnB, banks, BerkShares, bitcoin, cryptocurrency, economy, finance, investing, Kiva, LendingClub, Lyft, MazaCoin, microloans, occupy, peer lending, peer-to-peer, personal finance, sharing economy, stocks, Wall Street
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