May 22, 2013 — One of the toughest tasks any investor can undertake is to understand – and  thus be in a position to profit from – any advance or decline in the US  economy.  If you do nothing else as an investor but this one thing, your fortune  is assured.  Get it wrong – more than once – and your Life can hit the skids in  no time.  Humans – couples in particular – don’t do well in the absence of  life’s modern necessities:  Food, shelter, transportation, and a good load of  cash to keep it all working.  So I thought we could spend some time today  looking at how the real growth rate of America is doing.  As we’ll discover,  just finding out how the economy is doing (and how to make a buck on it) isn’t  as easy as it once was.  First, though, we’ll pause for coffee, some headlines  beginning with…

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May 18, 2013 — I’ve been thinking a lot about retirement lately,  perhaps because Social Security is a major financial carrot that I expect  government will try to snatch just as I get ready to take a bite out of it.  So  this morning we ponder a very interesting question: Did the current generation  (on average) miss Peak Retirement?  That and some interesting ponders on  designing the retirement lifestyle after we paw through some headlines and the  week’s look at investing…which any more is akin to staying one step ahead of  the highwaymen.

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May 15, 2013 — I  decided to make a cut at the data in our twice-weekly ChartPack this morning and  develop a couple of charts to show which countries and regions have been  particularly “hot” from an investment standpoint since the market lows in 2009.   The reason for doing this?  To get a better sense of where to park money…since  overseas investing via index ETFs is pie-simple.   After, that is, we get  through some of the morning’s headlines…

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May 11, 2013 — Lots of reader email piled up  this week as I am now all but 30-pages from being finished with the proofreading  on Real Time Machines: The Future is an App which should be up on  Amazon (with any luck) by mid week.  I thought this morning I’d run through some  of the mail because much of it is thought-provoking and I’m always willing to  help the Victims of Process and the downtrodden in general.  We’ll also run  through some expectation for next week and the week after, since big earthquake  and options expiration for the month are just ahead.

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