Last week the bond rating agency, Standard & Poors (S & P) downgraded the US Government’s debt repayment ability from a perfect AAA to a notch below at AA+. What’s the big deal? Here’s what’s really going on behind the scenes that you won’t hear about on TV or read in the news: The US is transitioning from being the…
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What’s Your Plan For Financial Freedom?
Did you know there are only 14 self-made women billionaires out of 1,100 on the planet? I don’t know about you, but I think it’s time we had some more! The interesting observation I had that occurred to me as I was looking at their names: Oprah Winfrey, Martha Stewart, Debbie Fields, Meg Whitman, Estee Lauder…what they did was THINK…
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Should Most of Your Wealth Still Be in Real Estate?
One of the most common mistakes I see people make when building wealth is to hang on to what was the best performing asset of the last cycle. Are you doing that with your real estate? Hoping it’s going to come back? The real estate cycle typically moves in 18 year periods and the last one finished about 4 years…
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What Do Billionaires Know About Investing That You Don’t?
Billionaires are good at seeing financial trends early, investing before the opportunity is obvious to everyone, and realizing that wealth moves in cycles. They search for the truth – what’s really going on – and they don’t take the media’s word for it. They know the media is tied to advertisers that pay the bills. They don’t want to upset…
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What’s Really Going On With Money
Last time I wrote about currencies and how it’s important to our wealth to understand the changes happening to them. Everything moves in cycles – even money. It’s important to recognize where we are in a cycle so you can plan accordingly. Even though investments may do well for 30 years (like bonds),there’s a time for them not to do…
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7 Ways Arianna Huffington Should Invest Her New Fortune
Arianna Huffington is one smart entrepreneur. In one fell swoop, she legitimized online newspapers and became an icon for women entrepreneurs. Congratulations to Arianna on the sale of the Huffington Post to AOL for $315 million! Arianna now has some serious and difficult decisions to make about what to do with her money. After capital gains and California State income…
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When to Pay Off Debt?
I want to answer a good question about debt I was asked this week… “When you have debt (on a credit card or line of credit) and own a business, how do you know how much to reinvest in your business versus when to pay off your debt?” There’s an easy way to look at this. It’s a two step…
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Women and Wealth
I came across the following statistics about women and wealth recently. They’re not new statistics, in fact they’re a few years old, but I hadn’t heard most of them. Needless to say, I was shocked to read them. Not because women aren’t doing the right things financially (in some cases that’s true, but I was more shocked at how women…
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Truly Conscious Wealth – Where the Financial and Spiritual Meet
I began noticing financial bubbles after the internet bubble. Every so often, one asset seems to go crazy in the economy. I noticed it wasn’t a one-time occurrence, it happened about once a decade. The media uses the term “bubble” in a negative way, by looking in the past after it’s burst. I look at bubbles in a positive way,…
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