What is Passive Income
Comments OffI’m quoting the following definition of “Passive Income” by Wikipedia: Passive income is a rent received on a regular basis, with little effort required to maintain it. It is advocated by some authors, especially by Robert Kiyosaki. Some examples of passive income are: Repeated regular income, earned by a sales person, generated from the payment [...]
Think of Your Stocks Like Real Estate
This past week, I was considering buying a home near my parents so that when I was back in area, I would have a place from which to work and live. With the real estate market falling to 2004 prices, on average, it seemed a good time to buy (value investing is not limited to [...]
Before You Open a Brokerage Account
Before you can begin investing, you must open a brokerage account (for those of you who don’t know what this is, read the article “What is a Broker” in the Beginner’s Corner). As an investor, choosing a broker is one of the most important decisions you’ll have to make. Here are five things you want [...]
Understanding Intrinsic Value and Why Different Businesses Deserve Different Valuations
Comments OffReaders of this site know that I’m an unabashed, dyed-in-the-wool value investor. Yet, a mistake many people tend to make is to associate this with only buying low price-to-earnings ratio stocks. While this approach has certainly generated above-average returns over long-periods of time (see Tweedy, Browne & Company’s publication What Has Worked in Investing), it [...]
10 reasons to invest in gold coins
There are many reasons today in this global economy to invest in Gold. I’m not just talking gold stocks but actual physical gold coins, jewelry, ingots, & gold stocks. Since ancient times gold coins have been a accepted and valid form of currency. Gold in time will always increase in value due to devaluation of [...]
