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My Learning Curve

Investitopia

April 30, 2012 My Learning Curve

Investing a portion of income has too commonly been treated as synonymous with both hoarding and gambling.  While in nearly every other area of life, the concept of risk is seen as concurrent with opportunity, when there is talk of investing money, one is often subject to accusations of everything from “explotation” to “irresponsibility” to [...]

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The Moral Superiority of a Wise Investment Strategy

March 30, 2012 Economics

Do you know who Fredric Bastiat is?  I met him last year when I read this book:  The Economics of Freedom: What Your Professors Won’t Tell You, Selected Works of Frederic Bastiat (Students For Liberty Library) In it he makes a thought provoking comparison between two brothers and their affect on the economy.  One brother [...]

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The Mother Who Invested in the Stock Market

March 16, 2012 My Learning Curve

When I was growing up I NEVER pictured myself participating in the stock market.  It was another world, akin to a science fiction novel.  When I married my husband, we began a limited savings program and became aware of inflation, which lead him to investigating investment choices.  For some reason, he decided to get me [...]

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