Tag Archives: personal finance

Election Impact – 2024

I must be brilliant! My portfolio is up 20% in November! So much for expecting an annualized 7%. What? It’s not because I did something on purpose? Welcome to an unintended consequence of the 2024 US election.  I’m not alone. … Continue reading

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True Tax Relief

I wanted to start writing this Friday afternoon, but I was due to be interrupted by the delivery and installation of a $2,000 washer/dryer and didn’t want the writing to be interrupted too. Maybe I’ll pull some weeds in the … Continue reading

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Looking Brighter

How odd is it to write this? Yep. Odd. And yet, as one friend put it, I can be disarmingly honest – which may just be another way of saying that I over-share, or surprise people, or scare people, or … Continue reading

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Value Of Time

What is the value of time? Gawd. Is there ever so ridiculously obvious and simply complex question? Time is all we have. We trade it for so little, and also for so many vital things. Allow me to try to … Continue reading

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Another Long List – June 2024

Does this seem tedious? Another long list of stocks? Well, this blog is about personal finance, and my personal finances are heavily skewed to dealing with two things: deciding what to do with the proceeds from my house sale, and … Continue reading

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What I Bought And How

I didn’t time this to be one month from the post that inspired it, but welcome to the sequel to last month’s post: Time To Buy But What. Has it already been a month? That means I’ve been in my … Continue reading

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Time To Buy But What

I watch stocks almost every day. (Sundays happen.) But, I rarely buy or sell, as frequent readers know. My style of investing is basically Long Term Buy and HOLD (LTBH), which in some cases takes decades. (Come on, GERN and MVIS; you’ve made progress. … Continue reading

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Debt Free Again

I am debt-free, again. I am also officially homeless. But, let’s not quibble. (Such a strange word. But, I digress.) Today, May 7, 2024, I officially relinquished my ownership of the only house of mine that truly felt like a … Continue reading

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FATE – One Company One Story

Welcome to another story and another video in my One Company One Story series.This time, Fate Therapeutics (FATE). Here comes the amateur legalese. I began investing in companies and their stocks in the late 70s, but am Not a certified … Continue reading

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A Tiny Experiment

Pardon the slight delay in my usual weekly posting schedule. Why? Keep reading. Am I actually doing this? Yes. I guess I am. I am buying a tiny house to live in. This might sound like an experiment, and it … Continue reading

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