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Dream Invest Live – Ten Years Old
Just ask Amazon. Ten years ago, November 26, 2008, I published Dream. Invest. Live. – Pioneer the Investment Frontier So You Can Live Your Dream, which I’ve come to describe as “Personal Finance for Frugal Folk.” Books are static. Blogs … Continue reading
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Tagged community, Dream. Invest. Live., Entrepreneurship, frugal, frugality, health care, housing, income, individual investing, inequality, LTBH, stocks, wealth
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Sigh And Bye Asterias
Rats. It happened again. A corporation agreed with me. A company with great potential and an undervalued stock can be a great investment. In the case of Asterias, that meant BioTime is buying the entire company. Yet again, one of … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, AOL, Asterias, biotech, BioTime, Disney, Dream. Invest. Live., FDA, GERN, Geron, GIG, GigOptix, investing, Investor Village, LTBH, Microvision, MVIS, NeoPhotonics, personal finance, Pixar, stocks, Time Warner, wealth
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Ten Years Of Dream Invest Live
It started the day after the election. Barack Obama had been elected. A dramatic change was taking place from the Bush/Cheney era. The world sighed in relief. America wasn’t as crazy as it looked. The ‘it’ in this case is … Continue reading
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Tagged AAPL, AMSC, consulting, Dendreon, DNDN, Dream. Invest. Live., frugal folk, frugality, healthcare, housing, Individual investor, LTBH, marijuana, Microvision, mortgage modification, MVIS, personal finance, PNTP, politics, real estate, real estate broker, Simple Living, stocks, writing
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Goodbye Netflix
Go to Netflix.com. Wait for the computer to load the page. Watch the page grab so much of the computer’s power that even opening a text file means having enough time to pour a cup of tea. So, why am … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, Apple, Chromebook, craigslist, Diworsification, Facebook, frugality, Google+, growth, hulu, investing, LinkedIn, LTBH, Microsoft, Netflix, personal finance, stocks, sustainability, Twitter, wikipedia, WordPress
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Economics Recessions Elections And Prognostications
So, what do you think will happen next? There’s only one word in that question with more than one syllable. Such simple words are signs of ancient origins. We’ve probably always asked that question. The world is weirder and changing … Continue reading
Wither Geron
I’m glad I waited, well, procrastinated before writing this post. One of my long-term investments finally had significant news. Oops. But is it oops forever, or just for a while? Forever is an interesting concept for a company that has, … Continue reading
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Tagged AST, Asterias, biotech, Dendreon, DNDN, Dream. Invest. Live., GERN, Geron, investing, Lottery, LTBH, personal finance
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MicroVision Begins 2018
It is the first week in January, time to celebrate the most popular post of 2017. There was one topic that stood out of a year of posts about CEOs acting as presidents and Presidents acting as if they were … Continue reading
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Tagged CES, CES2018, Dream. Invest. Live., health care, investing, LTBH, Microvision, MVIS, personal finance, pico projectors, picoprojector, RoBoHoN, smartphone, stocks, Whidbey
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Semi Annual Exercise EOY 2017
Can you explain why you own what you own? That’s the basis behind my semi-annual portfolio review. Can I describe why I own my stocks and what I intend to do with them? After a few years, it also helps … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, AST, Asterias, China, Dream. Invest. Live., GERN, Geron, GIG, GigOptix, GigPeak, investing, LTBH, Microvision, MVIS, NeoPhotonics, personal finance, real estate, Real Goods, Real Goods Solar, RGSE, RSOL, solar power, stocks, wind power
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CEOs Not In Charge
(Editorial note from an astute reader who caught the mistake made by a writer writing too late on a Friday night. “I think you mean Lasers where you have mentioned LED’s. LED’s are light emitting diodes and are not used … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Corning, Gorilla Glass, investing, LTBH, Microvision, MVIS, personal finance, Steve Jobs, stocks, wealth
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Semi Annual Exercise Mid 2017
Thank you, Peter Lynch for inspiring this exercise. For at least twelve years, I’ve regularly reviewed my investments through this one simple exercise. Every six months, I describe the companies I’m invested in, and their stocks (somewhat) succinctly. Peter Lynch … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, AST, Asterias, Dream. Invest. Live., economy, GERN, Geron, GIG, GigOptix, GigPeak, investing, LTBH, markets, Microvision, MVIS, NeoPhotonics, personal finance, Real Goods, Real Goods Solar, RGSE, RSOL, solar power, stocks, wealth, wind power
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