Hope to Prosper

Simple Practices that Lead to Wealth

Money Fail: Dead End Job

Income /
September 27, 2011

The biggest Money Fail I can possibly think of is for someone to work their entire life for low wages at dead-end jobs.

How Has Buy-and-Hold Survived So Long?

Investing /
September 9, 2011

I’m not a Buy-and-Holder. I believe that Yale Economics Professor Robert Shiller’s research has shown Buy-and-Hold to be a gravely flawed strategy and that Valuation-Informed Indexing (which teaches that investors must change their stock allocations in response to big valuation swings) is far more sensible and effective approach.

Failure and Greed of American CEOs

Economy /
September 4, 2011

This week, I read on The Daily Ticker that 25 of the top 100 highest paid CEOs had higher salaries than their company paid in federal income taxes. I don’t know what is more ridiculous, that companies paid their CEOs so much or they paid so little in taxes.