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Weekly Mixtape For March 1, 2020

Week In Review Articles The WSJ: Stocks Suffer Biggest Weekly Losses Since 2008 The WSJ: Federal Reserve Will ‘Act as Appropriate to Support Economy The WSJ: Amazon Opens Cashierless Supermarket in Latest Push to Sell Food Shoutout to my pal Michael Batnick For This Great Chart!!! Weekly Mixtape Pragmatic Capitalism: A Crisis is the Worst Time to Learn Your Risk Tolerance “The only other thing…

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Weekly Mixtape For February 23rd, 2020

Week In Review Articles The WSJ: Stocks, Bond Yields Drop on Worries About Coronavirus The WSJ: Apple to Fall Short of Projected Revenue Due to Coronavirus The WSJ: Fed Minutes Show Comfort With Economy, Rate Stance Last Month The WSJ: Bernie Sanders Looks Ahead After Nevada Caucuses Win The WSJ: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Stock Underperforms the Most Since 2009 The WSJ: Losing $450,000 in Three…

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Berkshire’s Annual Letter: A Lesson In Setting Expectations

I’d be lying if I said I’ve grown up in the profession dissecting Warren Buffett’s annual letters to Berkshire shareholders. It wasn’t until I started writing this blog that I began reading his letters; I didn’t read to find investment tips. Instead, I began to read his letters to learn how to become a better communicator. Not only is Warren…

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Weekly Mixtape For February 16th, 2020

No Video This Week. Week In Review Articles The WSJ: U.S. Consumer Spending Picks Up, While Manufacturing Declines The WSJ: Credit-Card Debt in U.S. Rises to Record $930 Billion Weekly Mixtape Morgan Housel: History Is Only Interesting Because Nothing Is Inevitable “When you look back at what people said in the late 1920s – their confidence, their clarity, their logic – you can’t…

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Weekly Mixtape For February 9th, 2020

Week In Review Articles The WSJ: U.S. Stocks Fall, But Post Big Weekly Gains The WSJ: U.S. Economy Added 225,000 Jobs in January The WSJ: China to Cut Tariffs on $75 Billion of U.S. Goods The WSJ: Trump Touts Economy, Ignores Impeachment in State of the Union Speech The WSJ: Brexit Is Done: The U.K. Has Left the European Union Love it. “Inside each and…

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Life Lessons From The Pursuit Of Happyness

This year we started a new New Year’s Day tradition…watching The Pursuit Of Happyness. I don’t remember how the idea came to me—I can’t remember if I saw it flipping through YouTube TV or if it just popped in my head, but I found it on Netflix and put it on as I made breakfast for everyone. To my surprise,…

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All About Your Benjamins The Podcast

Jamie Hopkins: SECURE Act 101

Click Here To Listen On Apple Podcasts At the end of 2019, Congress passed and the President signed the SECURE Act which brought potential changes to your financial planning.  I’m fortunate to have been connected with Jamie Hopkins who is a retirement income expert, his Twitter account says so, and an expert in the SECURE Act. He breaks down the…

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Weekly Mixtape For February 2nd, 2020

Week In Review Articles The WSJ: Dow Drops 600 Points on Global Growth Concerns The WSJ: Brexit Is Done: The U.K. Has Left the European Union The WSJ: U.S. Economy Heads Into 2020 With Steady Growth The WSJ: Impeachment Winds Down With Whimper as Washington Moves On I have a slightly different angle. I ask, “Assume we’re working together. What would success look like…

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