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A blog enables an expression of ones thoughts and allows others to react to those thoughts ...

If you intend to make it something that is built out of collective effort.. try moving on to creating a web site..

Starting with a blog would give you an understanding of what you can do... so that you can plan further..

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2007-07-28 10:49:40 by B

Short video from the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) promoting the need for a fiduciary standard in the financial ...

I'm looking at investing about 10G, split between a traditional IRA with the larger portion going to US/foreign stocks; probably about a 40/60 split. I'm self employed now, and will open a Roth IRA from my earnings at a later date.

For a long term investment strategy, I seldom hear recommendations for money markets, even though several people have told me that over the "long term" money markets have a return rate of around 12%. I realize this is a very general question, and of coarse it depends on which stocks are purchased, and how the money market fund managers are investing your money

Q: Given that my financial adviser is recommending stocks with growth potential or stocks with a good track record, do stocks historically, post a better return rate than money markets? (Historically defined as the last 10-15 years)

Thanks!

Chris

Historically over time, stocks have outperformed money market/bank accounts. I think you are confusing money market with mutual fund accounts though. Money market accounts are bank accounts, and no way do they pay 12% rate of return. Mutual funds might pay a rate of return of 12%, and those are run by money managers would pursue various strategies to achieve those returns.

2007-08-28 08:18:37 by chris p

Angeles, has $15,000 to invest. Her goal was to obtain an overall annual rate of return of $1,350. Himamalini, her financial advisor, recommended that she invest part of the $15,000 into corporate bonds at 12% and the rest into a government- backed tresury bonds, paying 4%. We want to find out how much Angeles should put into each investment in order to achieve the total annual return of $1,350; by doning the following.

a) write algebraic expressions for the amounts in each investment, using only one completely defined variable then draw a table and fill it up with infor from the question.

Investment in corporate bonds—x:
0.12x + 0.04($15,000 - x) = $1,350
0.12x + $600 - 0.04x = $1,350
0.08x = $750
x = $9,375

Investment in treasury bonds:
= $15,000 - $9,375
= $5,625

Answer: corporate bonds, $9,375; treasury bonds, $5,625

2010-02-13 09:12:05 by Billy_Bob

Who defines some one making 125,000 rich! or if there married 250,000. Yes these peolpe make a good income and pay there fair share in taxes but they are not rich. These are hard working oregonians that make what they are worth. I work as a financial advisor here in portland and all my clients fall into the RICH definition of this tax. If you asked them if making 250,000 means there rich they would disagree. also do we forget that these peolpe worked to be were they are at. I bet all the YES voters out there could earn more money to if they put in the 50, 60, 70 hour weeks that most of these RICH people put in but god forbid you ask them to show up at work at 6:00am and not leave till 7pm. that would be UNFAIR. you make what your worth and you shouldn't be punished by forcing you to pay more than your fair share in taxes which you alreday do.

50% of the worlds population live on $2.00 per day, are you really saying that $125,000-$250,000 per year isn't rich?

2010-01-26 11:03:47 by Billy Cunningham

Normally I wouldn't endorse anything Brzezinski was advocating (foreign policy at least).

But he does make some interesting points regarding the corruption in the U.S. GOVT. as well as the ethnic make-up of Afghanistan and what that means for Obama's surge plans.

What do you think??

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/02 /brzezinski-calls-anti-cor_n_376990.html

Former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was an early skeptic about increasing troops in Afghanistan, said he was not necessarily opposed to Obama's decision to send an additional 30,000 troops there. But he stressed that the mission had to be defined properly.

For starters, he argued that if America's military efforts lack a sufficient multilateral component, "it will in fact help to feed the insurgency." Brzezinski also cautioned that it would be hypocritical and counterproductive for America to stress that Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government be purged of corruption.

"Who are we to seriously be preaching [such] a crusade?" he asked. "We have a financial sector that is voraciously greedy and exploitative, to put it mildly. We have a Congress which is not immune to special interests. And we have an electoral system that is based largely on private donations which precipitate expectations of rewards. The notion of us going to the Afghans and preaching purity is comical... I think we should just quit that stuff."

Brzezinski also expressed reservations about a counter-insurgency strategy that is too reliant on bolstering national institutions, noting that there is "a very complex" mix of different ethnic and tribal groups that have historically opposed foreign or even central authorities.

"I think building up local forces, relying on the loyalties that prevail on the local level... makes much more sense given the fact that Afghanistan is a multi-ethnic society, which most Americans don't realize," he said. "To talk of an Afghan national army is to talk of something that is ultimately not possible."

You can speak the truth...doesn't mean you are lying or being hypocritical. The truth is what it is....THE TRUTH...

Not a lib and don't run from the truth.....

2009-12-02 13:13:22 by Water Over Gold