December 2011

QnA Friday: How to Buy Gold, Where to Store Gold in the U.S.

December 30, 2011
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It’s been a busy day today…I interviewed Louis James of Casey Research this morning and he gave me (and you!) an incredible amount of fantastic investing information that I look forward to sharing with you in the New Year! He is such a smart guy and savvy investor, and I’m truly grateful for his time. [...]

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Kung Fu Girl’s Top 5 Best Investments of 2011

December 29, 2011
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About a month ago I published the Top 10 Worst Investments of 2011 and it was easy to come up with a gigantic list—in fact, I had to edit it down to choose the absolute best of the best (or rather, worst of the worst)! However, it is a sign of our financial times that when [...]

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Happy Holidays! Louis James Rare Earths Audio and Transcript

December 27, 2011
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Happy Holidays from Kung Fu Finance! I hope you are truly enjoying the holidays this year and spending lots of time with the people you love. This is a “light” week here at Kung Fu Finance as both Kung Fu Guy and the Kung Fu Kids are home all week (yay!) and we’re hitting the [...]

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Survey Says…YOU Are Awesome, Happy Holidays!

December 26, 2011
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I hope you had a wonderful holiday with the people you love; I know I sure did. On this “light” holiday week I found this hilarious pic of Richard Dawson from Family Feud…remember him (always kissing on all of the contestants)? Well, while I can’t kiss on all of you awesome subscribers this week I [...]

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QnA Friday: Sleuthing out Newsletter Peeps, Kung Fu Santa, and more

December 16, 2011
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Happy Friday Everyone! Before jumping into this week’s questions I just want to say thank you one last time for taking time to answer the Kung Fu Finance survey! I have to say, I have the best readers ever. Thank you so much—I can’t wait to share the results with you! If you haven’t had [...]

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History and Investing: Why I Am Still A Gold Bull

December 15, 2011
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Now that I’ve gone all “Eastern Philosophy-Tao-Zen” on you, I’d like to explain why I believe understanding history is so important to your investing success. As I said yesterday, history gives you all-important perspective, which will help you make much better investing decisions. But unfortunately, the history that you need to learn to help you become [...]

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Yin, Yang, and Your Investing Success

December 14, 2011
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I didn’t really begin to achieve success in investing until I started learning more about history. Or to state it a bit more emphatically, You will not achieve much investing success unless and until you brush up on your history. Why is this so important? Because history gives you perspective, and perspective is crucial when [...]

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Which Belt Level Are You? (Survey)

December 13, 2011
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Here is the short, quick, 1-3 minute survey I promised you yesterday, and thank you in advance so very much for taking a few minutes to answer and for helping me serve you better. It really means the world to me and I thank you from the bottom of my heart! Without further ado, here [...]

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What I Struggle With

December 12, 2011
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As you know if you’ve read my mission for this website, I am trying to do a “big thing” here with Kung Fu Finance. My mission is to help 1000 people dramatically improve their personal financial situation in the next 12 months, and I’ve set my mind to doing so to the very best of [...]

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QnA: Accredited Investors and MC Hammer?

December 9, 2011
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I am shivering and have icicles for fingers today as I write this to you here in “balmy” (ha!) Palo Alto. I think we need to move back to Hawaii (where Kung Fu Guy is from) so that I can warm up! I just cranked up our heat and am about to start a fire [...]

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Two Cool Money Tools

December 8, 2011
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It’s been several weeks since I’ve talked about a “cool money tool” so I wanted to make amends and tell you about two really cool money tools. The first is to nourish your inner geek and the second, while it’s been around a few years, is a great place for those of you starting out [...]

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People Power: Who Do You Trust With Your Money?

December 7, 2011
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One thing that I believe has contributed immensely to my financial success is this simple rule: Know the people behind the business It’s astonishing to me how many well-meaning investors will do some or any of the following: Buy a share of stock in a company without knowing whom the CEO or Chairman of the [...]

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Top 10 Worst Investments of 2011

December 6, 2011
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OK, time to have a little fun. It’s not quite the end of the year yet so who knows, maybe some of these will have a “miraculous recovery” in the next few weeks (cough, cough, I doubt it, cough), but as December gets underway and we quickly approach the end of the year, it’s time [...]

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How Not to Become a Better Investor

December 5, 2011
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“It’s not strength that matters; it’s focus.” — Bruce Lee As you’ve read in my story, I graduated from college in 1996. For four years afterwards (four really fun years…) I did not focus on investing or on “personal finance” at all. These were the boom years, the party days, the “sure I’d love to [...]

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QnA: Where to Begin, Stock, and Rare Earths

December 2, 2011
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Happy Friday everyone! Lots of great questions this week so I’ll get right to it… First off, Emma from San Francisco asks, Your website looks very good. I especially appreciate the part that you shared what you did to learn investment. Your success with investment is impressive and inspiring. I’m interested in knowing the reasons of [...]

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The Two Most Important Things I Learned At the Rare Earths Conference

December 1, 2011
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Tuesday this week I attended the San Francisco Rare Earths Conference for accredited investors. The first thing I noticed was that “Accredited Investors” were treated much more nicely than the general public was for the first two days of the conference! (No, that’s not one of my “most important things I learned”, just an observation…). Literally, [...]

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