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I'll Take 5 Stock Market Facts for Perspective, Alex

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on June 6th, 2022

The U.S. stock market has been quite volatile this year so far – mostly down – as large company stocks have declined over 12% and small stocks have declined even more at over 20%. This is far from unusual and here are 5 data points that, hopefully, ease your mind about the future.

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Wealth is What You Don't See

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on May 23rd, 2022

While checking out at Kroger recently I asked the guy bagging my groceries if he was from New York state since he was wearing a Geneseo sweatshirt. (The name is familiar since I know a couple people from college who are from there) He responded that he went to school up there and proceeded to ask me if I was a professor at UK.

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Control Your Freak

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on May 3rd, 2022

The Serenity Prayer contains the following phrase: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.” Not only good life advice but outstanding investing advice, particularly during a declining stock market as the first four months of 2022 have been.

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A Financial Lesson from Golf's Worst Collapse

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on March 29th, 2022

In 1999, the French golfer Jean Van de Velde held a three-shot lead as he headed to the 72nd, and last hole, of the British Open. All he had to do to win arguably the most important golf tournament on the Continent was to score a double bogey or better – a 6 on a par 4. An almost insurmountable lead. Here is what happened:

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Overcome Depressing Math

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on March 7th, 2022

In a recent article the author Tim Urban wrote about a concept he calls “depressing math.” In a nutshell, this concept comes from actually counting the number of times that we will get to experience something we enjoy from now through the rest of our lives. It feels like we have countless weeks ahead of us but, in fact, they are quite countable.

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Coach Calipari Nails His Financial Advice

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on February 22nd, 2022

University of Kentucky men’s basketball coach, John Calipari, played himself in a cameo appearance on the Showtime series Billions last week. He, as usual, was brilliant. In fact, his advice to the fictional hedge fund traders was so spot on he might actually make a good financial planner some day. Here are some highlights followed by a link to the 1:47 video:

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What Interests Young Investors

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on February 1st, 2022

I recently spoke to a University of Kentucky class about financial planning and investing, as I have each semester for the last several years. The class has evolved some since those first couple of semesters to include more business majors than before. Their questions, however, haven’t really changed that much. Here is what I’ve found they’re most interested in discussing:

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I Am A Scratch Golfer

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on January 4th, 2022

One of my golfing buddies texted our group wishing us a Happy New Year and informed us that, as of January 1, 2022, as far as he is concerned, we’re all starting the new year as scratch golfers. In other words, we’re now all WAY better than we actually are.

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Good Reads During 2021

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on December 20th, 2021

The list of books I most enjoyed during the past year isn’t quite as anticipated as former President Obama’s or Time Magazine’s – but maybe it should be. My list, however, simply shares the books I enjoyed regardless of when they were published. I hope you find something interesting here too.

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What The "Succession" Characters Can Tell Us About Wealth

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on December 6th, 2021

I am obsessed with Succession, the HBO Max series about the uber-wealthy and powerful family vying to take over their father’s media empire. While exploring the motivations and psyches of truly terrible people, the show excels at character development and features brilliant writing. In the 2nd season, there is a scene where they provide striking perspective on wealth.

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ABOUT THIS BLOG

In 1996 Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D. and William D. Danko, Ph.D. wrote a seminal book entitled, The Millionaire Next Door. These two researchers went in search of the rich in the country: Who are they? What do they do? What do they drive? How do they invest? They discovered, much to their surprise, that many of the wealthy in this country don’t live in the most expensive neighborhood or drive the fanciest cars but are ordinary people living right among us regular people. Because, remember, wealth is not the same as income. If one earns a high income and spends it all each year, one isn’t getting wealthier, just living high. Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.

This blog is about and for those who live beneath their means, save their money, invest and, yes, get wealthy the old-fashioned way: steadily, over many years.

And I’ll occasionally share interesting stories that are completely unrelated to the main topic of financial planning.

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