(This is a true story, but names have been withheld to protect privacy) When Mr. X was a boy, his dad was a business owner who worked hard 6 days a week. By this example, the children were taught the value of work, saving money, and taking good care of the house and the car […]
The Pitfalls of Government Subsidized Stock Market Investments
It’s done all the time. A word that you thought you knew the definition to is taken and applied to a certain thing, in order to lull people into feeling warm fuzzies about what is really a power play hostile to freedom. Take the word “public,” for example. What does it mean? We’ve been taught, […]
Is Investment Income from the Stock Market Free Money?
There is no such thing as free money. There may be fake money or stolen money, both of which affect the value of whatever is being used as money. But no money is free. There really is no “free” anything. Someone had to do some work for there to be results. That is the current […]
Profile of an Investor – Perspectives of a 16 Year Old Girl on a Boise AAII Meeting
Recently I accompanied my mother, for the second time, to an investors meeting. The meeting is an exchange of information among a group of people who are investing, or want to learn about investing their money wisely. Both times that I have been to one of the meetings, it has been in the conference room […]
Investing in Master Limited Partnerships – An Investment by Any Other Name with Different Tax Rules and Government Regulation of Industry
I just heard of Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) for the first time this month. Initially, I was intimidated. However, after some discussion at the November AAII (American Association of Individual Investors) Boise Group meeting, as well as some research at home, I realized it’s just another way that the government complicates our lives with a […]