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Ask Not…

If you sincerely want to save America, you might consider both what you need to do and what you need to stop doing. Here’s a short list of suggestions. Some of this will be hard to hear, in large part because each of us has been subject to indoctrination with increasing ubiquity and intensity almost […]

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How I’m Spending My Time

Here’s what keeps me busy these days: –Studying Japanese –Reading (classic fiction; important and mostly old non-fiction; Japanese manga and zero business books) and doing a little writing –Watching anime –Working out 6 or 7 days a week — still love P90X after several years of practice, and am improving my Yoga –Playing guitar — […]

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Market Basics

“The bulls and bears go to market where the pigs and sheep are slaughtered.”         –Anonymous Investors want to get two things: yield, or rent for the money they supply; and growth, or increasing share price for what they own.  In return for these they give up liquidity, for which they expect compensation depending […]

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Thrift and Asset Accumulation OR building enough financial security so you can fire your last boss at will and only do what you really want to do

  The surest and most risk free way to generate a significant return is to avoid paying interest to banks and to aggressively prepay loans.  Banks charge you crazy interest and fees to borrow and pay you nothing when you lend to them, which is what your deposits are: a loan the bank can prevent […]

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Measures That Matter

The best way for most people in America to increase their revenue is to get paid more by their employers. There are several aspects to this that have already been discussed. An important additional concept is bench-marking. Bench-marking compensation means you have a simple way to calculate how far you have come and how far […]