Tag Archives: history

The story of 2 investors

By | 12/20/2021
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This true story I found in an online journal depicts the magic of compounding and the impact behavior has on our finances. Grace Groner and Richard Fuscone Grace Groner was orphaned at age 12. She never married. She never drove a car. She lived most of her life alone in a one-bedroom house and worked her whole career… Read More »

Sunshine Blogger Award

By | 08/30/2015
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Sunshine Blogger Award Nomination I’ve been recently nominated for a blogging award by roadmap2retire. Thanks R2R. 🙂 The person being tagged has to share some information about themselves, based on the questions posed by the person nominating. Let’s begin. 1. Name the top three experiences from your past, that help form who you are today.  In the past… Read More »

Pay More Attention to History, Less on Forecasts

By | 05/28/2015
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Economics is the only profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right. Remember earlier this year when just about everyone anticipated higher interest rates, but then the Bank of Canada slashed rates instead? If mainstream economic predictions were right interest rates would be a lot higher by now, our wages would have grown to keep… Read More »

A Collection of Mean Comments – Part 1

By | 07/02/2014
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Achieving Blog Notoriety So I Googled my blog for fun, to see if it shows up on the front page. Well in doing so I have discovered something else that’s quite interesting. It appears people on the internet who aren’t bloggers have been talking about my site. 😀 So I’ve decided to share some of those comments with you guys today. I’m too… Read More »