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Your First Portfolio: Beginning Your Investing Career
January 28, 2008
You’ve decided to start preparing for your future and invest your money in income-producing assets instead of stockpiling Mad Dog and cheap beer. You’re finally ready to start investing. It can be intimidating to start, but you can have a complete, well-diversified, and inexpensive portfolio quickly and easily if you follow these steps.
Five Funds for Dividend Income
January 13, 2008
The entire reason for investing your money is to make it grow. However, if you’re hoping to “buy low and sell high” in the stock market, you are at the mercy of what other people think a stock is worth. Since the price of a stock is simply what others are willing to pay for it, the easiest way to win is not to play the “buy low/sell high” game. Pay for the money that the stock pays you, in the form of dividends. Here are a few options to start on building your dividend income stream.
What is CAFTA, and what will its impact be on investments?
January 8, 2008
CAFTA (more precisely, DR-CAFTA - Dominican Republic - Central American Free Trade Agreement) is not talked about much in the news, but it is going to have a large impact on the US economy in the coming years. The basic concept was to create a free trade area between the United States and all of the Central American nations, including Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Honduras, but in 2004 the Dominican Republic decided to join in on the fun. CAFTA is similar to NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement, which comprises the United States, Canada, and Mexico) which came into effect in 1994.
How to Get Rich as an Engineer or IT Worker
January 7, 2008
Hi, my name is Bill Laboon and I’m going to tell you how you can make more money as an engineer, IT worker, or other worker in a technology field. There are other ways to riches, but I have no more experience in them than anyone else. What I do know is how to leverage the specific skills you know as a technology worker to help make you more money. I am not an expert in real estate, or salesmanship, or anything like that, and am not going to pretend that there’s only one way to wealth, or that my way if foolproof. I readily encourage you to check out other finance sites to see what may be right for you.
How Does the Federal Funds Rate Affect Real Estate?
January 5, 2008
You hear it on the news all the time. Will the Fed lower rates? Will the Fed raise rates? The most important question of all, of course, is: how does it affect me?
