What is your investing style? That is one of the first questions an investment professional will ask you when you seek their advice. There are many terms that can be used to define an investing style: Aggressive, conservative, growth, value, active, passive. Another way to define an investment portfolio is
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If you have a Keurig single cup coffee maker you know about the challenge of finding affordable K-cups. The grocery store K-cups can cost as much as a dollar each. You can sometimes find them on sale for 50 cents each when you buy in bulk. My Keurig machine came
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Last week I received a letter from the Minnesota Department of Revenue. When I get a letter from either the State or Federal tax agency, it often feels like I just landed on Chance in Monopoly. You are either going to owe them money, or you are getting a refund.
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Verizon Up is a program for Verizon customers that offers a choice of a reward each month. The value of the rewards start at $3 and go up from there. The most expensive rewards are the Super Ticket Rewards. These are usually tickets to concerts and sporting events. There is
Continue readingOctober 2021 Investing Update
For the month of October, the DOW gained 1559 points, recovering all of the loss from the previous month. My investments gained 2.57% during the month. Interest and dividend income was $4,138 for the month. The end of each quarter has higher dividends because of stocks and mutual funds that
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This isn’t my first blog on the web. I’ve been making posts on Blogger.com since 2005. I recently went back and reviewed some of my old posts from the early days. Many posts were about budgethomepage.com and things that were happening in my life. A lot of my early posts
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