In this article, I’m going to make the case for considering to allocate a small amount of your savings to Bitcoin. I’ll do that by…
The path less traveled.
In this article, I’m going to make the case for considering to allocate a small amount of your savings to Bitcoin. I’ll do that by…
In 2020, I learned about the macro economist Raoul Pal through a number of podcasts, and his pessimistic view of the global macro situation resonated…
This is the story of how Goldmoney botched the communication of a fundamental change in policy, that ultimately may lead to me taking my business…
This article discusses how to track crowd-sourced real estate investments in software like Quicken or iBank.
In my book, Money for Something we discuss how important it is to “stay the course.” Most people, however, don’t stay the course, and this chart from the J.P. Morgan Guide to the Markets illustrates the astounding consequences.
We live in an age in which the responsibility for providing for one’s financial needs during retirement mostly lies on the individual. A historically successful…
The power of compounding interest can be understood through the “rule of 72”—i.e. the number of years it takes to double your money is approximately…
So much of the financial services industry’s value proposition resides on the premise that markets can be beaten. With the most talented managers, the best…
Using software like Quicken or iBank, I’ve always budgeted, tracked and monitored our family’s expenditures by category. In this area, the internet age has delivered both improvements and setbacks.
[1]: http://moneyforsomethingbook.com
[2]: /2010/09/01/harry-browne-permanent-portfolio/
My book [Money for Something][1], was released in August of 2012. While the intention of the book was to teach the simple fundamentals of investing, I decided to go one step further, and describe the specific asset allocation in which I personally invest—known as the [Permanent Portfolio][2], that includes stocks, bonds, gold and cash.
As it happened, many of the book’s readers who subsequently got started in investing chose to invest in the Permanent Portfolio, rather than one of the alternative asset allocations such as the common “60/40” portfolio of stocks and bonds.
This article describes how I track and reconcile my LendingClub investments, using the iBank personal finance software. This method should be equally valid for people using Quicken.
Of the blogs I read, many are from authors who’ve become popular enough to monitize their sites, through memberships or advertisements. Those authors now have…
Today I created a publicly-accessible Google Spreadsheet that calculates the performance of the Permanent Portfolio over a range of dates. As a proxy for the…
About a year ago, I opened a checking account at Simple.com and made a small deposit. I’d seen a lot of chatter about the new…
A friend of mine who started investing in the Permanent Portfolio several months ago, wrote to me with concerns about the porfolio’s performance. Here’s my reply to him.
Interesting thoughts from Craig Rowland about the Cyprus banking crisis.
Peugeot builds out a major new commercial space here in the industrial zone of Marbella. Is this good or bad economic news?
In Money for Something, we talk about viewing wealth in terms of the income it can generate. This handy rule can also be used in reverse!
Behavioral psychology tells us to check our investments very infrequently.
Many years ago, I learned the fundamentals of investing, and over two decades of consistently following them, confirmed that (at least for me) they worked…
Although people often state financial independence as a personal goal, few with whom I’ve spoken can articulate what that means. (And even fewer know precisely how to get there.) It’s a lot easier to work towards an objective, when that objective is precisely defined.
Each person who makes the decision to save, must decide where to store his savings. This article introduces the “Permanent Portfolio,” in which the late…
Dr. Burton Malkiel, professor at Princeton university, is one of my favorite authors on the subject of investing. His book, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, is considered one of the cornerstones of personal investing literature. In 2008, Dr. Malkiel published another book, From Wall Street to the Great Wall, in which he makes the case for investing in China. Having read both books, I was puzzled by the apparent conflicts between the two.
In this article, I’m going to compress a lot of study, experience and opinion about personal investing, into a single essay to which I can…
In this article, I’m going to compress a lot of study, experience and opinion about personal investing, into a single essay to which I can…
