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11 Money Lessons to Teach Your Kids

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Since we've discussed what money skills kids should know before they leave home, I was interested in seeing if the authors of Lessons to My Children: Simple Life Lessons for Financial Success, Wealth, and Abundance agreed with those thoughts.

 
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Daily Links: Holiday Weekend Edition

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Labor Day weekend begins tomorrow afternoon in the U.S. It’s the traditional end-of-summer holiday, and most folks will get Monday off as a paid holiday. My own vacation is going to be a bit different: I’m going to take tomorrow off instead. This will be the last post until Sunday evening.

 
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Stop Learning and Start Earning

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It’s time to stop learning and start earning.

I’m not kidding. You really should stop studying and just get out there. Once I did, I became a lot more successful.

I can best explain the true cost of learning when I tell you about launching my blog.

Two years ago, I didn’t know what a blog was.

A friend convinced me to launch one in order to market a book I was writing, so I decided to “look into it.”

The more I looked into blogging, the less I understood it. As a result, I went deeper.

 
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Reader Mailbag: Dream House

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What’s inside? Here are the questions answered in today’s reader mailbag, boiled down to five word summaries. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question.
1. 401(k) profit sharing
2. Online job application tips
3. Illness and challenges
4. College freshman advice
5. Mortgage decisions
6. Annuities for retirement?
7. Refinancing questions

 
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The Timing Value of John Hussman’s Market Climate Assessments

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Over the past several years, we have tracked and evaluated qualitatively the commentary of John P. Hussman, Ph.D., president of Hussman Investment Trust, with respect to timing the U.S. stock market in the context of Guru Grades.

 
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Cycles and Risk

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The segment on CNBC, right before the close yesterday, featured commentary from Rick Bensignor and David Darst. There were a couple of points made in the segment that seem to have been accepted as truthisms that I think are actually counter-productive.

 
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Outperformance Streaks and Mutual Fund Manager Skill

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Do documented streaks of market outperformance occur more often than would be expected by chance, thereby supporting belief in investing skill? In their August 2010 paper entitled “Differentiating Skill and Luck in Financial Markets With Streaks”, Andrew Mauboussin and Samuel Arbesman compare actual streaks of mutual fund outperformance relative to the S&P 500 Index to results of 10,000 “no-skill” simulation trials to measure whether skill exists.

 
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Tuesday links: helicopter cash

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James Montier, “In essence, the [bond] market is implying a 70% probability that the US turns Japanese.” (Behavioural Investing)

 
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Why Investors Need to Look at Africa Right Now

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Africa has had many false dawns. So there are good reasons to be skeptical of yet another rising sun, full of promise. But this dawn has been a long time in the making and has different foundations than before. Already, we’re seeing some amazing changes.

 
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