June 2012

QnA Friday: All About Gold, KFF Goes Mobile

June 29, 2012
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 ”There’s a lady who’s sure, all that glitters is gold…” — Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven My apologies in advance if you can’t get that song out of your head for the rest of the weekend…   It’s been in mine all day while I’ve written the answers to today’s QnA, which is appropriately entitled, “All About [...]

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Adventures in FOREX (Part 2)

June 27, 2012
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It all comes back around… A few months ago I wrote an article about FOREX (I Want it NOW—Adventures in FOREX)—a sexy, “smart money” arena where you can make hundreds of thousands of dollars in an instant… OR, lose your shirt. (And unfortunately, it’s a lot easier to do the latter!) If you haven’t read [...]

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Know Your Enemy…

June 25, 2012
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In kung fu, as in all martial arts and any type of war or battle, it is crucial to study your enemy. Because the more you understand your enemy—their favorite strategies and tactics, their key players and moves, their strengths and weaknesses—the more likely you are to win the most important battle of your life—the [...]

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QnA Friday: Fun with the Fed

June 22, 2012
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TGIF! This marks my first week home in Michigan for the summer, and while I’m still adjusting to the time change (as are the Kung Fu Kids—they seem to want to go to sleep at 11:30pm or later…8:30pm California time!), it’s wonderful to be home and I’m writing you this missive while looking out at [...]

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Presenting the KFF Secret Decoder Ring…

June 20, 2012
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I used to love playing with secret decoder rings when I was a kid. They would come in cereal boxes and I fancied myself quite the spy, able to decipher all kinds of “secret messages” that my friends and I would make up and pass around to each other. Well, like most seemingly useless things [...]

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The Truth About Building Wealth (dirty little secret)

June 18, 2012
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Here at Kung Fu Finance I endeavor to expose the truth of how wealth-building really works (and how falling prey to hype such as “buy this ONE stock and make 300% in 6 months!” really doesn’t work). Today is one such occasion, and I would like to expose a dirty little secret of wealth-building… A [...]

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QnA: Operation Michigan, #1 Blogger, Inflation, Reader Responses, India

June 15, 2012
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It’s T-2 days and counting until Operation “Undisclosed Lake in Michigan” begins…stay tuned! And I just learned today that Kung Fu Finance was named the “#1 Personal Finance Blogger of the Week” on a site called QuizzleWire (I love their tagline: “Don’t Guess. Know.“). They did a very nice write-up on me and I now feel [...]

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This. Week. Is. Insane.

June 13, 2012
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Both for me personally, and for our global economy (although lately the economy seems consistently insane, so perhaps “insane” is the “new normal”…?). Today, probably due to my own personal insanity this week, which I will explain in a moment, I feel driven to present you with 10 reasons why I believe the entire world [...]

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QnA Friday: Gold plunge, How to Internationalize, Information Overload

June 8, 2012
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Thank you for your great questions and comments this week, and I wish you a wonderful weekend (and for many of you, the start of summer already!). Next week is the Kung Fu Kids’ very last week of school, and also our last week in California before heading for the shores of a beautiful lake [...]

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The #1 Reason Why You Must Declare Your Financial Independence

June 6, 2012
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If you are an email subscriber to Kung Fu Finance (thank you!), and are not simply viewing this article on the website, then you have probably read my free report on the #1 threat to your financial future and 3 proactive steps you can take right now to begin your journey to financial independence. And [...]

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The Sexy World of Private Equity (Part 2)

June 4, 2012
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I hope you had a fantastic weekend! We are counting down the days until Summer here in the Kung Fu Family household and I personally cannot believe it is June already. The year is 40% over…are you 40% closer to achieving your goals? I hope so! (I’ve got to get a move on, myself!)   [...]

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QnA Friday: China, Australia, Private Equity, Meetups, Facebook, Kids and Money

June 1, 2012
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Happy Friday, and welcome new subscribers! It’s great to have you on board our Kung Fu Finance battleship. With all of the gloom and doom foisted upon us by the financial media these days, it’s hard not to believe that maybe the Mayans had it right after all and the world really will crumble into [...]

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