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Lifestyle Inflation: The Spending Trend
- October 6, 2016
- Posted by: Alexander Bebis
- Category: Cash Value Life Insurance, Financial Planning, Personal Finance, Retirement Planning, Saving Money
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"A luxury once enjoyed becomes a necessity." - C. Northcote Parkinson As we grow older, what we want becomes more sophisticated and we need bigger budgets to keep up. It would never occur to us to take a weekend trip or go anywhere really, without our smartphone, e-reader, tablet, fitbit, or external battery. What is lifestyle -
A Rigged Stock Market: The Fed, Debt, & Buybacks | Part 1
- September 9, 2016
- Posted by: Alexander Bebis
- Category: Alternative Investments, Economics, Financial Planning, Investing, Personal Finance, Retirement Planning, Saving Money
“These markets are all rigged, and I don’t say that critically. I just say that factually.” ~ Ed Yardeni, President of Yardeni Research, Inc. We start off with an introduction to the matter at hand by Dr. Robert P. Murphy an Associated Scholar with the Mises Institute, in his article The Fed Can’t Save Us he -
The Power of Having Access to Cash
- July 21, 2016
- Posted by: Alexander Bebis
- Category: Cash Value Life Insurance, Financial Planning, Personal Finance, Retirement Planning, Saving Money
“There are three steps in the revelation of any truth: in the first it is ridiculed; in the second resisted; in the third, it is considered self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher Do you have access to your money on demand? Or are you locking up your assets? The answer may be influencing your wealth
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Speculating with Your Savings? Annnnnd It’s Gone
- June 16, 2016
- Posted by: Alexander Bebis
- Category: Financial Planning, Investing, Personal Finance, Retirement Planning, Saving Money
Funny and true. Unfortunately most of the current employer sponsored retirement plans are "defined contribution plans" like a 401(k) instead of "defined benefit plans". With a defined contribution plan YOU, the plan participant rather than your employer BEARS ALL THE INVESTMENT RISK; along with NO GUARANTEE of a monthly income stream when you retire. And -
The Consumer Price Index & The Truth About Inflation
- June 6, 2016
- Posted by: Alexander Bebis
- Category: Financial Planning, Personal Finance, Retirement Planning, Saving Money
“By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.” – John Maynard Keynes Regardless if we’re rich or poor, thrifty or wasteful, inflation is as inevitable as death or taxes. But how high IS the cost of living ? Is the Consumer Price
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Lessons from The Big Short & How to Protect Yourself
- May 4, 2016
- Posted by: Alexander Bebis
- Category: Financial Planning, Investing, Saving Money
“The thought-provoking film is a timely reminder of the lessons from a financial crisis which are too quickly forgotten.” – Patrick Durkin, Sydney Morning Herald Hollywood Tells the Story of the Lie That Crashed the Economy Hollywood’s cinema version of The Big Short, based on Michael Lewis’s best-selling book on the financial crash, was releases to
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How to Save Money
- April 19, 2016
- Posted by: Alexander Bebis
- Category: Cash Value Life Insurance, Personal Finance, Saving Money
“As important as I think (saving) is, national savings has always been relegated to the B list of economic measures.” – Edward M. Gramlich, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve from 1997-2005 Believe it or not, there was a time not long ago when Americans tracked their savings rather than their credit card
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Escaping the Consumer Debt Trap
- March 2, 2016
- Posted by: Alexander Bebis
- Category: Personal Finance, Saving Money
How Good People Get Caught in the Debt Web. If you are staggering under the weight of Consumer Debt, join the club. According to a May 13 article in Investopedia entitled “Stop Keeping Up With The Joneses – They’re Broke”, over 43% OF Americans spend more than they make. One financial journalist estimated that
