A friend of mine lost his job due to some downsizing at the retail apparel company he’s worked at for the past six years. Lucky for him, he got a decent severance worth six months of his salary. But, what if you get no severance? What if the income you had been expecting month in […]
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The Facebook effect is palatable here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Just the other night, my no-limit poker buddy who works as a product manager at Facebook said, “Sam, let’s raise the blinds from $1/$2 to $10/$20!” “Umm, no Egor, you might wipe out my lunch money for a year with those type of […]
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For those of you who have never heard of the “Big Dig”, I learned about it in business school. I graduated before the project reached completion. According to Wikipedia: “The Big Dig was the most expensive highway project in the U.S. and was plagued by escalating costs, scheduling overruns, leaks, design flaws, charges of poor […]
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After I was finished with grad school, I had a job lined up and was feeling pretty good. I moved into the city where my new job would be and was then informed that because of the downturn (this was in spring 09) that the project I was slated to be working on was being […]
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A topic that is commonly discussed these days in the personal finance community is something called, “The Lost Decade.” In fact, while I was recently reading several financial magazines, I found out that many would-be experts would have us believe that the past 10 years were completely useless for investors. Quite a bold statement if […]
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As many of you know already, I have recently launched my first eBook: Dividend Investing – How to Build a Never Ending Cash Distributor. This is a free resource for the one who would like to know how to start investing and earning passive income. I wanted to talk a little bit more about the […]
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* It’s 2015 now and the bull market rages on! If you were to ask me at the beginning of the year whether I’d accept a 11% return on my overall stock portfolio I would emphatically say, “HELL YES!”. Thanks to fantastic first quarter earnings, the Dow Jones is up 11% and the S&P 500 […]
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Not sure where people are getting the idea that there’s such a thing called passive income, because there really isn’t. The only thing I can imagine as truly passive income is if one inherits a bunch of money, buys some CDs and lives off the interest. That is legitimate passive income, everything else is not. […]
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