Getting Started
Here is a somewhat-more-organized list of articles to help you get started on your kung fu path to financial freedom!
The Basics
- Who Is Kung Fu Girl?
- Welcome Grasshopper
- Why Kung Fu?
- About Kung Fu Finance
- Our Values
- The Importance of Getting Started: A Journey of One Thousand Miles…
- Top 5 Personal Finance Books
Kung Fu: Mastering Your Mind
- Self-Discipline: How to Have Crappy Self-Discipline and Still Win Financially
- Personal Responsibility: Others Can Teach But You Must Learn
- Resilience: The True Meaning of Kung Fu (As Exhibited By A Turkish Restaurant)
- Focus: The Power of Focus (Iron Hands)
- Yin, Yang, and Your Investing Success: How History and “The Big Picture” Complement Narrow Focused Strategies
- Overcoming Adversity: Be Like Water
- Persistence: Bruce Lee’s Three Keys to Success
White Belt Articles: Earning Your White Belt
- How to Achieve Financial Independence in 7 Steps
- Financial Independence: Earn Your White Belt
- Financial Independence: Kung Fu Girl’s Vision
- Financial Independence: Turn Your Vision into SMART Goals
- WHITE BELT TEST — Are You Committed?
Yellow Belt Articles: Earning Your Yellow Belt
- The Most Important Financial Statement You’ll Ever Read
- Is Your Financial Life a Mess?
- Channel Your Inner Kung Fu: Five Steps to Clutter-Free Finances
- Guest Post: Your Kung Fu Emergency Plan
Economics / Financial Knowledge
- What Happened To Your Money? Part 1 (Taxes)
- What Happened To Your Money? Part 2 (Inflation — Duck Tales)
- History and Investing: Why I am Still a Gold Bull
- What Is Money? (Part 1: History)
- Apparently I’m Now Wanted By the FBI: (National Debt Since 1940)
- What Is Money? (Part 2: Fractional Reserve Banking, You, John, Steve, Sarah)
- What Is Money? (Part 3: Money is Debt, Fed POMO Explanation)
Empty Your Cup / Challenge Your Thinking
- Diversified or Di”Worse”ified?
- The Creature from Jekyll Island…Is the Fed a Cartel?
- Conspiracy Theory Thursday…More on the Fed
- What’s Really Happening In America…A Look at the Dow Priced in Gold
- Are You A Sheeple?
- 4 Ways Your 401k Is Robbing You Blind: Part One (Fees)
- 4 Ways Your 401k Is Robbing You Blind: Part Two (Trapped Capital)
- 4 Ways Your 401k Is Robbing You Blind: Part Three (The Tax Man Cometh)
- 4 Ways Your 401k Is Robbing You Blind: Part Four (Beat That Horse Dead…Nationalization)
- “Paper” Gold Gotchas: 8 Specific Dangers to Be Wary Of
- The Lure and Magic of Passive Income (and how to GET it!)
- Think For Yourself (I Want it NOW: Adventures in Forex)
How To’s / Smart Money Success Strategies
- How To Use Trailing Stops: Your #1 Strategy for Dealing with Volatile Markets
- How to Find Private Placements: Five Ways to Find Private Placements
- Smart Money Investment Questions: Top 5 Questions Smart Money Always Asks Before Making An Investment (That Dumb Money Does Not)
- Top Three Investing Insights: It’s Not “Too Hard”, It’s Not “Too Boring”, Art vs. Science
- People Power: Whom Do You Trust With Your Money?
- Three Steps to More Money: Determine Your Worldview, Place Your Bets, Hedge Accordingly
- Success Strategies: Your #1 Success Strategy for 2012 (Keeping It Simple…)
Inspiration (My Personal Screw-Ups and More)
- The Importance of Taking Action: A Personal Story (Buying physical silver)
- The Importance of Checking the Technical Charts (AND Knowing the Fundamentals)
- Rules I Live By (personal)
- Guest Post: Adventures In Real Estate Investing, Robert Kiyosaki Courses
Interviews / Kung Fu Finance Radio
Conferences and Accredited Investor Meetings & Events
- San Francisco Hard Assets Conference: Day 1, Rick Rule Keynote
- San Francisco Hard Assets Conference: Day 2, Expert Keynote Panel (Bulls vs. Bears)
- San Francisco Hard Assets Conference: Day 3, Special Accredited Investor Rare Earths Day (The 2 Most Important Things I Learned)
- Louis James Rare Earths Audio and Transcript
- Prophecy Coal Accredited Investor Pitch Announcement
- Prophecy Coal Accredited Investor Pitch Results
- Guest Post: Cayden Resources (Junior Gold Mining Explorer)
- Live from Chile: Sovereign Man Resilient Community
Current Events
- What Steve Jobs Can Teach Us About Money
- This Guy Nailed What Occupy Wall Street Is So Frustrated About
- Let’s Talk About Debt, Baby (Greek Debt, US Debt)
- The #1 Thing You Should Be Afraid of Today (And How to Fight Back)
- Dealing with Uncertainty (Europe, US, MF Global, US…How Kung Fu Girl is Dealing With It)
- Top 10 Worst Investments of 2011
- Top 5 Best Investments of 2011
- Top 3 Predictions for 2012
- What the Heck is Happening in Europe?
- Til Debt Do Us Part (US Debt-to-GDP hits 101%)
Cool Money Tools
- Square (Cool Money Tool That Lets YOU Be the Merchant)
- Stock Gumshoe
- Finovate (Finance and Technology) and CreditKarma
- Super Cool Money Tool (Fiverr): Make Some Quick Cash…
- Khan Academy
Miscellaneous… (Rants, Funnies, and More)
- Extreme Couponing
- Let’s Open Up a Bank!
- Is Your Present a Gift? The Importance of the “Now”
- What I Struggle With (Help Me Help You, Survey)
- Which Belt Level Are You? (Survey)
- Survey Says! You Are Awesome, Thank You (Survey Results)
- Sexy Money…How to Instantly Give Yourself a Raise
QnA’s
- Deflation, Getting Out Of Your Comfort Zone, 401k-to-Self-Directed-IRA
- Is Now a Good Time to Buy a House?
- The Best Gold ETF’s If You Must Own “Paper” Gold, How to Succeed in the Stock Market
- Where to Begin, Why Did I Take Money Out of the Stock Market in May, Rare Earths, Accredited Investor Q’s
- What is an “Accredited Investor”, Anyway?
- Big Picture vs. Narrow Focus, How to Find GOOD Newsletters
- How to Buy Physical Gold, Recommended Dealers, Where to Store Gold in the US
- Where to Start, Finding a Broker, Who Do I Trust, and more
- Self-Directed IRA, Wall Street Survivor Paper Trading, Aren’t Mongolia and Argentina “Risky”?
- Leveraging with Options, Private Placements, Which Bank In Singapore, How to Subscribe
- Real Estate, Precious Metals, Quicken, Life Tips, and More
- Checking On Markets, Bonds, Robert Kiyosaki, Open Opportunity IRA’s
- QnA Friday: Inflation, Index Funds, Money Supply, Robert Kiyosaki, Options
- QnA Friday: Live from Chile, China’s Money Printing, Personal Coaching
- QnA Friday: Live from Washington, D.C. (Debt, Inflation, More…)
- QnA Friday: Commitment of Traders, Birth of Kung Fu Finance, Am I a Black Belt, and More
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I was hoping to get started on this page, but all the links to the articles seem to be broken
Are they available here or elsewhere? Thank you and congratulations on the site anyway!
Thank you for letting me know! They should be fixed now– I recently had the site “optimized” for SEO but apparently that broke these links (they switched it from date-based to non-date-based). Anyway, thank you so much for letting me know and hopefully they are all fixed now!
And welcome to Kung Fu Finance!
– KFG
Your ‘Getting Started’ page looks very useful to me but many of the links are broken. You should fix the links so people cn view your content.
Thanks Steve!
Thank you so much for letting me know, and they should be fixed now… (see above comment for details).
Welcome to Kung Fu Finance!
– KFG
Thank you for bringing your passion for life to the financial world. It not only is necessary to understand, but also an important piece of the puzzle of life, and opens a whole new world to the connecting of dots.
A;though my children are quite brilliant in their own fields, understanding “money” is not there specialty.I will pass this on to them.
Hi Karen,
Welcome to Kung Fu Finance, and thank you for your nice comment!
Yes, I believe money and understanding it is very important to life! It’s not everything, of course, but it is definitely important (and most of us don’t learn very much about it in school!).
Thank you for passing this onto your children…I hope I can help!
– KFG
Great site! I’m an avid reader of Casey Research and found a link to yours on their latest newsletter. Looking forward to spending a lot of time here!
Hi KFG,
Thank you for providing great information online and via emails to me directly. After the facebook IPO I was wondering what companies I can invest in so that I can sell overpriced shares to the public in the future. I found the website: http://www.absoluteipo.com/offer.html. I’m weary if it’s a scam or something concrete. Please advise how I can verifty if this will be a real company with a real offering.
Danny
Only practical way I can invest in gold/silver are through ETS’s, but I would like to know whicn one on the multitude of etf’s are the safest to invest in
I watched you on capital account and found it very interesting.now added kung fu finance to my favourites.The truth of economics is shrouded in smoke and mirrors, lies, corruption and greed. It is only now, that with the coming collapse of world finance based on faulty economics is this being exposed.Having bailed out the people that believe in this system, has only led to a greater inevitable correction. These are only words ,but the human cost will be terrible.I admire your enthusiasm and agree in preparing for any eventuality . I hope for a prosperous future after the collapse but I’ll hedge my investments.
I have heard PSLV if a good ETF, but I would like information on a good ETF that can be bought on the LSE
Hello KFG,
Your website is awesome of true information and bless you for not been sway by the media or non-truth media. I will continue to follow you and learn on how to become independent of Monetary slavery. PLease do elaborate more on the step and system you follow to attain freedom. Thank you. In another subject, what do you think of the Romney Tax proposal, please details. Inmy opinion has not really showed the total plan but from what he has revealed it is pro-1% of the wealthy. i know wealth is what we strive but I think the wealthy can put more to fix the economy and the parity between the society classes. Please do provide your input. Thank you
does kfg only reply if you compliment her website
I enjoyed reinadg your nice blog. I see you offer priceless info. stumbled into this site by chance but I’m sure glad I clicked on that link. You definitely answered all the questions I’ve been dying to answer for some time now. Will definitely come back for more of this.
Hi, KFG-
Am a new follower of yours….learned about you by reading an article in the Palm Beach Letter. You have a great site with very useful information. Appreciate your openess in describing your own lessons learned, how you got here and your investment advice. I am interested in learning more about self directed IRAs. How do I locate reputable companies to open up a self-directed IRA? …..and can I use it to purchase physical silver/gold? Also, what are the differences between self-directed IRAs and “Opportunity IRAs”?
Thanks much……..
Grasshopper
Hi KFG, how do you deal with dividens payout? Do you re-invest or sweep out the dividends to your own account? Please do a quick blog on how to deal with dividends from your investments and where to deposit dividends?
Thank you
Genaro-
Hard Assets Alliance sounds great. Downside or risks?
Hi
I would like you to add me to your email mailing list. I have tried for years to
make my money make money and seen gains only to lose it. I’m fortunate to just get my money back in the long run. The Palm Beech letter referred you.
Thanks
Jim
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