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Four Coronavirus Principles I Learned from Billionaire Ray Dalio’s TED Connects Talk
Four Coronavirus Principles I Learned from Billionaire Ray Dalio’s TED Connects Talk “In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.”- Franklin D. Roosevelt TED Connects is a live, daily conversation series featuring experts whose ideas can help us reflect and work through…
Read MoreBeyonce, Coachella, Netflix & Your Retirement
“Whatever you do, strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.” ~ Benjamin E. Mays, President of Morehouse College 1940-1967 Homecoming (stylized as HΘMΣCΘMING; subtitled: “A Film by Beyoncé”) is a concert film about American singer Beyoncé and her performance at the 2018 Coachella Valley…
Read MoreThree Strategies on How to Protect Your Retirement Nest Egg during this Market Downtown
“The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.” – Ben Graham As I write this blog on Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 3:10pm CST, the Dow Jones Industrial average ended the trading day down 799.36 points (-3.10%)[i], the S&P 500 Index ended the trading day down by 90.31…
Read MoreOctober Effect. Where Do We Go From Here?
“October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.”- Mark Twain What a week. What a month so far. October historically has been a notoriously bad month for the market and this October has not…
Read MoreStock Market Jitters? It’s Time to Analyze Your Risk
“If you take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.”- Carly Fiorina The recent stock market drops are creating jitters for millions of investors. With concerns around rising interest rates, trade policies and higher inflation now is the time to analyze your investment risk. Risk can be defined as possibility…
Read MoreWhat Does Your Love Letter Say to Your Family?
“A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.”- Myrtle Reed I heard one theologian say, “The Bible is God’s “love letter” to us, telling us not only that He loves us, but showing us what He has done to demonstrate His love.” The same way God has…
Read MoreNike, Kaepernick & Retirement Planning
Nike, Kaepernick & Retirement Planning Do it Now. Sometimes “Later” becomes “Never”. – Anonymous On last week, just days before the start of the NFL’s 2018 season, Nike announced that Colin Kaepernick would be the face of the 30th anniversary “Just Do It” campaign. With Kaepernick still without a quarterback job and a collusion case against…
Read MoreAretha Franklin: Two Financial Lessons We Learn From Her Legacy
“Most people don’t plan to fail: they fail to plan.” John L. Beckley Two weeks ago we lost one of the greatest voices, arguably the greatest, this world has ever heard Ms. Aretha Franklin. I have always been drawn to Aretha Franklin for three reasons, first we share the same birthday March 25. Secondly,…
Read MoreRetirement Emergency & How to Fix It
Retirement Emergency and How to Fix It “Eighty-three percent of African Americans over the age of 50 lack the retirement assets they need to last the remainder of their lifetimes.” Center for Global Policy Solutions, August 2015[1] “You can be young without money, but you can’t…
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