October 2011

Don’t Get Tricked: The #1 Thing You Should REALLY Be Afraid Of Today and How to Fight Back

October 31, 2011
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Today is Halloween here at Kung Fu Girl’s house. With a 3-year-old and a 5-year-old I can’t escape it (not that I want to— who doesn’t love a holiday where you can dress up as your favorite fantasy and eat as much candy as you like, or party all night depending on your age…or both!). [...]

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Let’s Talk About Debt, Baby

October 27, 2011
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(Title to be sung in your best Salt-N-Pepa voice…) Today I’m busy preparing for an upcoming business trip– I’m flying to Florida tomorrow to meet with two of my all-time-favorite Internet heroes, Craig Ballantyne (Internet Independence.com) and Matt Smith (SovereignMan.com). What I really love and respect about Craig and Matt is that they are experts [...]

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Top Five Personal Finance Books

October 26, 2011
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It’s freezing here today in Palo Alto as I write this; a great day to curl up on the sofa with a good book in front of the fire. If you’ve read my “Who Is Kung Fu Girl?” bio you’ll know I’m an avid reader (nerd alert!), and last year I read approximately 50 business [...]

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Cool Resource For You: The Stock Gumshoe

October 25, 2011
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I have a secret. In addition to a great kung fu movie, I also LOVE detectives and spies. From Scooby Doo and Nancy Drew to Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, James Bond, Mission Impossibile, and more, I LOVE me a good mystery! And now there is a guy (actually he’s been around since 2007) called the [...]

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What’s Really Happening in America?

October 24, 2011
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I am one of the world’s most positive people (honest, just ask any of my friends– I’m one of those people many love to hate because I smile ALL THE TIME). However, today I’m afraid I’m going to be more “Debbie Downer” than “Susie Sunshine” so I apologize in advance… As I write this, stocks [...]

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It’s QnA Friday…No Worka ’til Monday…

October 21, 2011
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It’s been a crazy week this week! I have a quick comfort zone story for you and then I’ll dive right into some great questions I’ve gotten via email or on the blog– I appreciate all of your questions and will answer as many as I can each Friday! Getting Out of My Comfort Zone…YIKES [...]

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Empty Your Cup, It’s Conspiracy Theory Thursday!

October 20, 2011
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It’s not Aloha Friday yet, sigh, but it IS Conspiracy Theory Thursday! Today, we’re going to follow up on our conspiracy theory topic from last week, as we have received some timely updates from none other than the U.S. “Government Accountability Office (GAO)” and Ron Paul, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate. So let’s get right [...]

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Top 5 Questions that the “Smart Money” Always Asks Before Making an Investment (That the “Dumb Money” Does Not!)

October 19, 2011
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Let’s get our Jedi Kung Fu on today!!! Do you ever wonder how some people seem to be able to make money off of just about any investment, while others suffer enormous losses? Well, today I’d like to share with you 5 key questions that the “smart money” always asks before making an investment: 1. Will [...]

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This Guy Nailed What OccupyWallSt Is So Frustrated About

October 18, 2011
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I read a great guest post today on ZeroHedge that I’m going to share with you, entitled “Debt-Serfdom is Now the New American Norm“. IMHO, this guy nails what #OccupyWallStreeters are so frustrated about (what we are ALL so frustrated about!). When you add in the fact that we are taught absolutely nothing about money, banking, [...]

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How to Have Crappy Self-Discipline and Still “Win” Financially

October 17, 2011
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Today I want to talk to you about discipline– specifically, why it is so important to your financial success and how I absolutely suck at it but still manage to “win” financially (and how you can, too, if you choose!). So let’s get right to it… why is self-discipline so important to your financial success? To [...]

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Cool Mobile Money Tool That Lets YOU Be the Merchant!

October 14, 2011
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Are you ready to stop giving everyone else your money and instead start collecting some of THEIRS? Aw yeah, me, too! Now THAT is some serious kung fu! On Wednesday we joked about how you would be better off to open a bank, rather than a bank account, and though I can’t help you with [...]

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The Book That Changed My Life

October 13, 2011
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More Mystery and Intrigue…Just What the Heck IS the “Fed”, Anyway? So I’m declaring today to be “Conspiracy Theory Thursday” and we’re going to talk about one of the biggest, juiciest conspiracy theories out there— the Federal Reserve. Just what the heck IS the Federal Reserve, anyway? Well, let’s start with what it isn’t: It’s not [...]

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Wednesday Funnies– Let’s Open Up a Bank!

October 12, 2011
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The following exchange was published in the British humor magazine, Punch, on April 3, 1957. I’ve changed the British Pound sign to the US dollar sign, but otherwise it reads just as it did over fifty years ago…not much has changed, eh? Enjoy!   Q. What are banks for? A. To make money.   Q. [...]

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What Happened To Your Money? (Part 2)

October 11, 2011
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In a previous post we discussed one of the ways in which the government legally “steals” your money (via taxes). But unfortunately, taxes are only ONE of the ways that the government legally steals your money… There is also another, even MORE insidious way… Inflation (The Hidden Tax) That’s right, inflation. (Yawn….I know I know, I [...]

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What Steve Jobs Can Teach Us About Money

October 6, 2011
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Today, all across the world, people are mourning the loss of one of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs. There is hardly a person living who has not been touched in some way by Steve Jobs’ beautifully designed inventions, from the world’s very first personal computer way back in 1976 to the more recent stunning slew of [...]

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What Happened To Your Money? (Part 1)

October 4, 2011
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Do you ever wonder where all of your money goes? Or why your employer stated when you got your job that you would be making “$60,000 per year” (awesome!) but instead of your monthly paycheck being $60,000 divided by 12 months = $5000 per month, it is much, much less, sometimes only HALF of that: [...]

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