Kung Fu Finance: Master Your Mind, Master Your Money

Kung Fu Girl Interviews Rick Rule

October 17, 2012

Continuing my interviews from the recent Casey Summit, with big thanks again to the awesome Casey Research team, I had the great honor to sit down and talk with one of the (if not THE) best investors I have ever met (although he might consider himself more of a speculator). Rick Rule is Chairman of [...]

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Kung Fu Girl Interviews Dr. Lacy Hunt: Bond Expert and Former Fed Economist

October 12, 2012

Happy Friday! At the recent Casey Summit in Carlsbad, CA, I had the great pleasure to interview Dr. Lacy Hunt, internationally-known economist, executive vice president of Hoisington Investment Management Company (HIMCO), senior economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (yes, that Federal Reserve…), and well-known financial author and speaker. (HIMCO is a registered investment advisor [...]

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Adventures in Extra Income…

October 9, 2012

If you’ve been reading for awhile (thank you!) you know I put much more stock and focus on the importance of earning more income (and investing that income wisely) than I do on clipping coupons and “not spending” money. Don’t get me wrong…both skills are vital to your financial future, but you will get a lot [...]

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QnA Friday: Which Belt Level Are You?

October 5, 2012

Happy Friday Kung Fu Warrior! I have decided to turn the tables on you for this week’s QnA session…I have a fun little quiz / survey prepared for you! After all, the point of this site is to help YOU become a better master of your money (and of your mind!) and in order to [...]

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When Owning Gold Made You a Target for Execution

October 3, 2012

Greetings! What a tremendous response to Martin’s article on his personal experience living through hyperinflation on Friday. I am so glad so many of you have “emptied your cup” and are willing to entertain the possibility of that happening here in the U.S…..heck, many of you think it’s only a matter of time, thanks to Bernanke [...]

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

September 28, 2012

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

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

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

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

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

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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Kung Fu Girl on TV!

September 7, 2012

Greetings from lovely Carlsbad, CA and Day 1 of the Casey Conference, Navigating the Politicized Economy. I will have much to report to you on the conference in the coming days, but today I want to share a video with you—I was interviewed yesterday by the awesome and intelligent Lauren Lyster on RT’s Capital Account [...]

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Barry Ritholtz: How to Master Your Mind

September 4, 2012

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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QnA Friday: Gold, Investor Psychology, When to Sell, Fear

August 31, 2012

Happy long weekend grasshopper! I’ll make my intro short and sweet for once, as here in the U.S. we are embarking on a three-day holiday weekend and I don’t want to come between you and your BBQ fun! Let’s jump right in… First, Maile asks, Last week (July 23 – 27), I purchased more gold [...]

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Holy Smokes Batman, $16 TRILLION?

August 29, 2012

One of the biggest promises I made to you when starting Kung Fu Finance was to tackle the job of demystifying finance for you, to the best of my ability. For an industry that prides itself on words like “credit default swaps”, “derivatives”, “inverse yield curves”, “gold-to-silver ratio”, “diminishing returns”, “ROI”, “Capex”, “P/E ratio”, “beta”, [...]

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Live from SF, It’s Saturday Night!

August 25, 2012

Wow, what a week! If you are wondering why this week’s QnA is coming to you on Saturday, rather than the usual Friday…it’s because I had a week like this one: (This. Week. Is. Insane.) But happily in a really, really good way! It’s transition week here at Kung Fu Finance central—the Kung Fu Kids [...]

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Adventures in Income…Peer-to-Peer Investing

August 22, 2012

Hello dear grasshopper! Wouldn’t it be nice if someone were to just reach their arm right out of your computer and drop a nice bag of gold coins on your lap? And nicer yet if they did so on a monthly basis, each and every month handing you more and more bits of silver or [...]

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QnA Friday: Kung Fu Superstar

August 17, 2012

It is great to be back home for a few weeks before my next adventure (that would be the upcoming Casey Conference in lovely Carlsbad, CA… I hope to see you there!). You may have noticed a change in my posting schedule recently…I used to post faithfully every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and then [...]

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