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Yielding Wealth | Personal Finance

January 30th, 2008

Why The Bear Market Is Good For My Retirement Account

My Roth IRA lost in value last year. A great deal of it happened in November. I’m sure it was rather rocky last week as well. But I didn’t check. Mainly because I’m not terribly worried about what this bear market is going to do to my retirement portfolio. If were retiring next year, I’d […]

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January 9th, 2008

Beating the Bear Market: Saving Some of Your Income

Today’s words of wisdom from Paul Farrell’s MarketWatch article on ten things that can help you beat the bear market are rather simple: save. Farrell recommends that you set aside 15% of your income in some sort of savings, whether it’s retirement accounts, stock investing or some other vehicle. But he also says that 10% […]

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January 3rd, 2008

Will Your Finances Survive the Next Couple of Years?

Everyone knows that the stock market is risky, and that you could lose money, no matter how “good” your information may be. However, things are getting a little bit dicey. MarketWatch’s Paul Farrell points this out about where our stock market is headed:
Now the biggest of all insults: Our capitalist system is so dysfunctional that […]

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