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Beat stress for less
This year the end of the holidays probably didn’t bring the usual stress relief; there are still worries about unemployment, a flailing housing market, and a volatile stock market, all of which may be taking a toll on your health.
Personal finance advice, ideas – Money Magazine
End of Stock Picking? Don’t Try to Beat an Index
By John Melloy, CNBC Executive Producer, Fast Money & Strategy Session
NEW YORK (CNBC) — The correlation of moves in individual stocks and the S&P 500 index is at a record, making the job of long-only mutual fund managers to differentiate from the benchmark virtually impossible, according to a report from Goldman Sachs.
The correlation for the S&P 500 and its members is at 0.73, according to Goldman, meaning that the majority of stocks move in lockstep with the index on a daily basis. This is at least the highest in 20 years and therefore likely a record.
This High-Yield Portfolio Will Beat the Market
Forty weeks in, and these dividend picks are beating the market.
Fool.com: The Motley Fool
3 Stocks to Beat a Recession
These undervalued stocks have strong growth prospects.
Fool.com: The Motley Fool
The Little Black Book of Microcap Investing: Beat the Market with NASDAQ/AMEX Microcap Stocks, OTCBB Penny Stocks, and Pink Sheet Stocks Reviews
The Little Black Book of Microcap Investing: Beat the Market with NASDAQ/AMEX Microcap Stocks, OTCBB Penny Stocks, and Pink Sheet Stocks
ONLY 150 NEW BOOKS LEFT! The Little Black Book has sold out of 3 print runs. Once these last 199 books are gone, NO ADDITIONAL COPIES WILL BE PRINTED! Are 1000% gains still possible in post-internet bubble markets? Absolutely! While most large cap stocks sluggishly provide single digit returns, microcap stocks offer the opportunity for amazing gains. Dan Holtzclaw, author of the best-selling book Penny Stocks: The Next American Gold Rush shows you how to beat the market with NASDAQ and AMEX micr
Making Dollars With Pennies: How The Small Investor Can Beat The Wizards On Wall Street, Second Edition
Making Dollars With Pennies: How The Small Investor Can Beat The Wizards On Wall Street, Second Edition
“Making Dollars with Pennies” introduces the reader to the world of low-priced profitabel companies that have rewarded investors in both up and down stock markets.
The Best Investment to Beat the Recession Is Your Own Skills and Knowledge
In some cases, a recession can be a good thing because it forces companies and people to write off bad investments, obsolete technology, and out-of-date practices, all aimed at one important goal: Increasing productivity, or the operating profit per employee. As the recession fades into the background, which they inevitably do as people adjust and wring the excess out of the system, many of the gains in know-how and productivity stay with the system.
This bodes well for the overall economy but not for the people most likely to be hit by a recession – those who have low skills relative to the general population. As I’ve written about in past essays, the unemployment rate among those with advanced professional degrees is only 2%,and among those with college degrees, only 4% or so. In this class, for all intents and purposes relative to historical norms, there is no recession. All of the pain is concentrated in the low-skill sector of society, especially men without high school degrees or only high school degrees. In certain sub-groups, economic data shows the unemployment rate is as high as 40% to 50%. That is one of the reasons it is short-sighted and foolish to talk about “The American Consumer” as Don Peck pointed out in a fantastic article called Can The Middle Class Be Saved?
Obviously, no one wants to hear that especially if you are among the low-skill, unemployed segment of society. All you know is it’s hard, if not impossible, to put food on the table. But until politicians start getting honest and tell folks these jobs are not coming back, and they will never come back, people will continue clinging to a false hope.
The only reasonable chance someone has of climbing up the socio-economic ladder is to retrain and acquire skills that are in demand relative to supply. For example, there is a shortage of dentists in the United States right now and a general practitioner in that field earns roughly $ 150,000 per year, or $ 12,500 per month. A dentist married to a dentist in a joint practice, earning a combined $ 300,000 per year, would be in the top 1% of income.
