Category: Investing
Investing
Micawber’s Favorites – December 16, 2017
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Links to several of my favorite recent articles on money and life. This week’s focus is investing: Patient Investing Requires a Little Faith by The Analyst at the Monevator I believe strongly that faith is a vital attribute for successful investing. Faith in a better future for yourself; faith in the world’s economy to continue…
Investing
Getting Uncle Sam Back – Micawber’s Money Quote (December 11, 2017)
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Investing, Smartest Things Ever Said About Money
10 Investing Lessons From Dilbert Creator Scott Adams and Vanguard Founder John Bogle
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I have enjoyed Dilbert comics since they first started showing up in my Sunday paper in the early 1990s. I found creator Scott Adams’ brilliant insights into business culture hilarious but I didn’t know anything about Adams himself other than that he could make me laugh. Unknown to me Adams was also an investing expert. Of…
Investing
The Best Investment a Parent Can Make – Micawber’s Money Quote (December 4, 2017)
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Debt, Investing, Misc., Retirement
10 Amusing Cartoons by Randy Glasbergen That Also Teach Important Lessons About Money
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I am a big fan of cartoons and have been collecting my favorites for many years. I have always been in awe of how a skilled cartoonist can create a simple drawing, add a few words, and make people both laugh and think. Since money is a big part of life, and all of us…
Investing, Misc., Money Parables
The Case of the Missing Bullet Holes
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The year is 1943 and America is deep in the desperate struggle to save the world from tyranny. The United States had entered World War II a little more than a year earlier following the December 7, 1941 attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor. As the United States ramped up the war effort the…
Investing
Beware of Experts – Micawber’s Money Quotes (October 23, 2017)
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Investing, Money Parables
Building a Sound Financial Ship
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Almost everyone is familiar with the tragic story of the Titanic, but did you know that the Titanic wasn’t the first “unsinkable” ship to meet disaster on her maiden voyage? On August 10, 1628, nearly 300 years before the Titanic disaster, the mighty Swedish warship Vasa set sail from Stockholm harbor. The recently completed ship…
Budgeting, Investing, Misc., Money Parables
The Majesty of Simplicity
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. – Warren Buffett The great paradox of this remarkable age is that the more complex the world around us becomes, the more simplicity we must seek in order to realize our financial goals. Never underrate…the majesty of simplicity….Simplicity, indeed, is…