September 2012

QnA Friday: Living Through Hyperinflation: A First-Hand Account

September 28, 2012
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Wow. Just Wow. As Barry Ritholz would say, I continue to be humbled by the awesomeness of our Kung Fu Finance subscriber community. You all seriously rock. First of all, thank you for your inspiring emails and words of encouragement, and I’m glad you liked yesterday’s post! Yes, happily my “trying times” seem to be [...]

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Master Your Mind: Kung Fu Underdog

September 27, 2012
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Today I’m going to tell you the story of the famous “kung fu underdog” and show you what the true meaning of kung fu really is. I’ve been put through the ringer over the last few weeks in just about every way you can think of, and am sorely in need of a little kung fu [...]

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QnA Friday: Kenny Rogers and Your Money, How to Become Accredited, Wealth Transfers

September 21, 2012
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Last week I got some great questions on trailing stops and investment theses, and I promised to share with you what Kenny Rogers has to do with your investing: “You got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, Know when to walk away, know when to run. You never count your [...]

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G. Edward Griffin: The Fed is a…Success?

September 19, 2012
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If you’ve been reading Kung Fu Finance for a while, you know I consider G. Edward Griffin’s book, The Creature From Jekyll Island, to be a game changer for my personal financial education, calling it literally, “The Book That Changed My Life“. It was his book that first opened my eyes to the fact that [...]

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QE3 to Infinity and Beyond…

September 15, 2012
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Wow. Helicopter Ben has done it again, unleashing another round of “quantitative easing” (e.g. “money-printing”) onto our economy, promising to drop $40 billion each and every month into the purchase of mortgage-backed securities, and promising to stop dropping said $40 billion…well, never. That’s right, he’s promised to continue spending $40 billion each month indefinitely, until employment [...]

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Your Three-Minute Investment Thesis

September 11, 2012
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Yesterday I returned from the amazing Casey Conference in beautiful Carlsbad, CA. Once again the speakers were phenomenal…and this time I even got to interview a few of them and pick their brains on what it really takes to make money on your investments! I will of course share those with you as soon as [...]

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Barry Ritholtz: How to Master Your Mind

September 4, 2012
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I love Barry Ritholtz. I had the great fortune to meet and spend some time with him at the recent Agora Financial conference, and to get to know him a bit over dinner and drinks at the Vancouver Art Museum. He’s a very smart guy, CEO and Director of Equity Research at Fusion IQ (an [...]

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