by The Investor
on March 24, 2009
There’s a straightforward way to make enough money to cover your mortgage, buy food and clothes, pay for your kids’ haircuts, and leave enough money to spare for investing.
This method is not effortless, but you’re not afraid of hard work, right?
This top money-making method will also:
- Teach you new skills
- Help you meet new people
- Make you a valuable member of the community
All that and it earns you money!
So why don’t you hear about it on any of the ‘Get Rich Quick’ Internet sites?
Because there’s not much money to be made reminding people that their career and salary could be their number one financial asset.
Health is wealth
I was reminded about this last week. Having foolishly taken a few days holiday, I ended up confined to bed, hit by a flu virus that felt like a baseball bat.
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by The Investor
on March 21, 2009
The stock market might have mounted a bit of a recovery over the past ten days, but unfortunately your writer has gone the other way. Picking up a particular virulent strain of Lurgy maximus while messing about on the river last weekend, I’ve been confined to bed for the past 96 hours on a diet of Ibuprofen and freshly squeezed orange juice.
I’m happy to report I’m feeling much better today though, so please do stay subscribed to Monevator, and look out for a resumption in posting once I’ve caught up with my other work next week.
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by The Investor
on March 14, 2009
Every week I read a large number of personal finance and investing articles. Here’s my latest weekly shortcut to the best.
I’m away suffering through a stag weekend today, so this selection of personal finance articles from the blogosphere doesn’t cover anything published after Thursday.
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by The Investor
on March 11, 2009
“Get your favourite stocks here, everything must go!”
Eating breakfast this morning, I caught Hugh Hendry, the gloomy and currently outperforming UK fund manager, on CNBC.
Hendry’s main call, which he has been rewarded by repeating for months now, is to avoid equities.
Yes, the market has fallen, Hendry says, but that doesn’t mean it won’t keep falling. Look at the Great Crash of 1929, and all the down years that followed. Markets can keep dropping for years.
I like the twinkle in Hendry’s eye and his contrarian reflex, but regular readers will know I’m not convinced that he, me, or anyone else can really time stock market moves or spot bottoms over the short-term.
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