How Do You Decide if an Investment is Right for You?
It’s easy to decide not to invest in an investment opportunity if it doesn’t sound good right off that bat. But what if it does sound good? Most investments proposed to you will likely sound compelling or the person telling you about it wouldn’t be doing so. So how do you decide if you should […]
How Can You be a Better Investor?
We are starting a new series with the goal of making you a better investor. We expect this to be a long topic and perhaps it will actually be more like a series of topics, but wanted to give you an idea of where we’re going. We haven’t written this material yet, so it can […]
What Would Severe Inflation Look Like?
This is conjecture, but let’s spend a little time trying to think about what our physical life will look like if/when the Dollar starts losing value dramatically. We can’t think through every scenario, nor will we paint a perfect picture, but let’s paint one regardless. The best guess here is that at some point, the […]
What Would it Take to Push the US Economy Over the Edge?
We’ve established that the US has an untenable amount of debt which is growing at incredible rates, and that foreigners are becoming more and more uncomfortable holding this debt and dollars in general. The US is in a precarious position, and those of us who live here are the ones who will most feel whatever […]
Ben’s Whole Life Policy Frees Him
A few more years flew by and Ben and Greg’s dry cleaning business was flourishing. They opened two more stores and were finally seeing nice profits in all of them. Over time they purchased the building that the second cleaners occupied, as well, and then both the building and the business of the two new […]