Tag Archives: Investing
How To Handle A Double Dip Recession
Just a quick search via Google, and the term “double dip recession” returns 1.8 million results. The topic is hot, and many people, if not the majority, believe that a double dip recession is on its way. Many articles speak of fear of a double dip, and try to anticipate whether and when a double dip might hit us. Although such discussions are highly interesting, I tend to focus more on how to handle such a recession for now; because if it hits us, there will be nothing we can do to stop it, no matter whether we fear it or not. The question I ask myself is how I handle it, and >> Read More
I Plead Guilty To Being An Emotional Human Being
I have to admit, I don’t have the best ‘education’ when it comes to doing investments. I didn’t grow up in a family, that taught me all about finance, and even during my education International Business Management, investments and the stock market wasn’t dealt with in great detail. I did my first investment in 1998… or rather speculation, when I bought an option in a company, which later appeared to have falsified its bookkeeping; and thus they went bankrupt. I didn’t touch investments for a few years. Then I learned a bit more about fundamental >> Read More
Getting The Big Picture: A Market Snapshot
In all the emotion and uncertainty of today’s turbulent markets, we tend to lose sight of the big picture. Well, at least I do. The human mind has the unrivaled ability to forget, or to distort memories and experience, or to think things are alright whereas they are not, or to think things are going down the drain whereas they won’t… I bumped into a website today, which provides exactly that: the big picture. Which crises did we have in the past, how did the major exchanges develop during the past 100 years, and where do we stand today in comparison to past major bear >> Read More
Mind Your Own Business!!
I finished reading CASHFLOW Quadrant, by Robert T. Kiyosaki yesterday and I feel a bit obliged to write about it. On the one hand, because the book is partially filled with incomplete information, being too vague, and for some part promoting illegal practice (e.g trading stocks based on insider information), on the other hand because the book still does make some good points… and it’s a great motivational book by the way. I know, I know, when I read my first book of Robert Kiyosaki, I was quite positive about him, until I did some further research on the topic. The Cashflow >> Read More
10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was a Teen
I had quite an interesting flashback lately; as I was sitting on my couch and letting some things pass through my mind, I was struck by the fact that there are so many things I could have done much sooner, and thereby enhance the quality of my life and my personal financial situation. Then, why hadn’t I? Quite simple really: I just didn’t know… or at least I didn’t know they were that important. In order to help some of the younger readers, I have compiled my personal top 10 list of things I wish I knew when I was a teen. I sincerely hope that for some of you it >> Read More
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