I was clicking through YouTube looking for a video to post this morning and I came across this TED Talk from Tom Sosnoff discussing the value of learning how to take risk. I don’t know anything about Tom but I found his short talk entertaining, interesting, and thought-provoking. I’m not sure I agree with him […]
Investing
Warren Buffett Talks About His Early Choices
Like many in the personal finance community (and everyone else), I am always up for watching another Warren Buffett interview. When you look back over Buffett’s career, what the man has accomplished is truly amazing Here’s a 30 minute interview of Warren Buffett by David Rubenstein. During the interview, Buffett talks about how he got started […]
Launching the Financial Slacker Fund
Along the lines of my crowdsourced thinking article posted yesterday, I would like to start a little test here at Financial Slacker. The question is whether the Financial Slacker community as a group can use crowdsourced thinking to create a fund that will outperform the S&P 500. I’ll set up two accounts with equal funds. […]
Thank You Martin from Get Fire’d ASAP
Yesterday, I received an early Christmas present. I won a drawing for a premium subscription to the stock selection service, Simply Wall St. The drawing was sponsored by Martin, creator of the personal finance site, Get Fire’d ASAP. Martin writes about his life as a 50-something financially independent, early retiree living in Australia. One of […]
Small Business Investing May Be Your Best Option
I received word this morning that for the second time in as many weeks, a small business that I was looking at acquiring has agreed to a deal with another buyer. When I lose a deal like this, I am never entirely sure why that’s the case. You don’t know when others began their conversations. […]
Personal Capital Issue – Resolved Quickly and Without Effort
The Personal Capital issue that I wrote about the other day has been resolved. And I will say that I am impressed with the responsiveness that the Personal Capital team demonstrated. I sent an email to the support desk at 10:09 am. I received a response back 91 minutes later asking me for more specifics […]