In 1966, I was traveling the Pacific aboard a freighter. I was 19 years old at the time and attending the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y. As part of my academy education, I spent a year as a student officer on freighters, passenger liners, oil tankers, and ...
https://www.richdad.com/the-dollars-last-days
12/8/2014 2:17:52 PM
Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the "intrinsic value" of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means. The good news is that once you understand intrinsic value, you may better understand why some investors make more money than o...
https://www.richdad.com/value-matters-more-than-price
12/8/2014 2:17:57 PM
All over the U.S. there are stories of a rise in real estate foreclosures. Many people who took those exotic mortgages -- borrowing 125% of home value or choosing adjustable-rate mortgages -- are struggling to make their payments, and some aren't making it. Also, a glut of n...
https://www.richdad.com/cooling-real-estate-market
12/8/2014 2:17:58 PM
Cleaning out my office recently, I found an old USA Today newspaper dated May 8, 2006, that I had not read. Glancing at the Money section, I came across an interesting array of articles. The headline of the Money section read, "Dow Closing on Record High". The article began:...
https://www.richdad.com/listen-to-the-right-experts
12/8/2014 2:17:59 PM
"What's good for General Motors is good for America," so a saying goes. I believe that statement is truer today than when it was first said some years ago. Right now, the carmaker is struggling. "The reason GM is in trouble is because its cars aren't that good," commented a ...
https://www.richdad.com/what-ails-gm
12/8/2014 2:18:00 PM
One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up. Most of us remember the insanity of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s. From 2000 and 2005, it was the real estate bubble. Today as I write, it's oil, gas, g...
https://www.richdad.com/favoring-silver
12/8/2014 2:18:00 PM
How many of you are old enough to have been working in 1973? If so, you would've had the kind of economic experience I did at that time. But if you were in school or missed the period of the oil crisis, get ready because those times could return with a vengeance. I left the ...
https://www.richdad.com/oil-crisis
12/8/2014 2:18:01 PM
"Is there a real estate bubble?" That's the question I'm asked repeatedly. When I reply honestly -- "I hope so" -- my questioners' fear occasionally turns into anger. "You want the market to crash?" asked one young man incredulously, an attendee at the Learning Annex's Real ...
https://www.richdad.com/booms-busts-opportunities
12/8/2014 2:18:02 PM
As retirement nears, millions of Baby Boomers are scrambling for deck chairs on the Titanic. For about 30 years now I have been watching a major financial disaster developing. Its contributing factors include the shaky financial foundations of Social Security and Medicare, co...
https://www.richdad.com/investing-in-shaky-asset-lifeboats
12/8/2014 2:18:03 PM
A great quote from Warren Buffett goes: "I'm a better investor because I'm a businessman, and I'm a better businessman because I'm a better investor." So let me tell you how to be a better investor by being better at business. Business knowledge varies among these three kind...
https://www.richdad.com/investing-and-biz-smarts
12/8/2014 2:18:06 PM
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