Triple Digit Returns on Currency Investment There are lots of ways to make money in the world. It’s up to us investors to find them. 😉 A couple of years ago I blogged about my investment in Zimbabwean dollars. I purchased some uncirculated $100 trillion Zimbabwean banknotes on the internet and paid CAD $5 for each one. 🙂 Back then I even made a prediction that… Read More »
The Enemy of Success is Delusion Author and public speaker Steve Siebold has helped many people with their careers. His clients include Fortune 500 companies and his books are considered by many to be the gold standard in the field of psychological performance training. One important distinction that Steve notices between the middle class and the wealthy is in how they… Read More »
Bar Stool Economics Capitalism in the United States is in serious disrepute. The Bush tax cuts have been said to give the top 0.1% of Americans an average of $520,000. That is over 400 times the average tax cut received by middle-class households. Many people are upset at how tax cut policies seem to disproportionately benefit the upper class. If anything,… Read More »
Time and Annual Returns I recently watched an interesting YouTube video about time and the rate of return, by finance columnist Preet Banerjee. He explains the relationship between an investor’s time horizon and his or her rate of return. Here’s a question to illustrate an example. If our goal is to accumulate $100,000 by age 65, how much do… Read More »
The Pessimism in the Markets Corporate profits have been disappointing lately. Apple (AAPL) recently said its revenue fell for the first time in 13 years due to a decline in iPhone sales compared to the same time last year. Apple shares are worth 26% less now than a year ago. Investors are warned the decline could continue. 🙁 Other publicly traded companies are… Read More »
My net worth increased $64,000 so far in 2016 Goodness gracious me! 😀 That’s even more than my annual gross salary. Maybe I should quit my full time job already. Haha. But here’s the caveat. My net worth is measured in dollars. So I’m only becoming richer relative to the local currency. But as we shall discuss below, currency depreciation can be a… Read More »