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Tired of the superfluous investment news and black box strategies, we set out to find the best strategy for diversified index funds. After researching investment news letters and strategies, we found what we think is hands down the best strategy since it is simple to execute, avoids most bear market losses, and significantly beats a buy and hold investor over the full market cycle. Our goal is to help investors avoid expensive fees and commissions and unrecoverable investment mistakes. We enjoy sharing our research and if you read us you will learn why our motto is simply "Invest Smart".
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Smart Bird: China’s Lehman Moment or When Insurance Fails
“The U.S. will not allow Mexico to collapse” – 1994. “The West will never allow Russia to collapse” – 1998. “Washington would never tolerate a housing bust” – 2007. “Beijing has everything under control and will do whatever it takes to sustain China’s boom” – 2021.
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the TSP S fund
The Federal Reserve helped leverage up the small cap stocks during the pandemic. Now the payback begins.
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The History of Labor Day
“The people had just begun to jump when we got there,” Perkins later recalled.
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TSP Smart: Unstainable
Millennials have a fraction of the wealth the boomers had at the same age. College costs 10 times more today than when I went to college leading to college debt serfs. Homes prices are up 500% since I graduated thanks mostly to suppressed interest rates creating home mortgage debt serfs.
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Smart Bird: The Conservative Elite End Game?
This Heather Cox Richardson post explains a lot about the methods and objectives we are seeing in the US today. The conservative elite model of leadership: —————————————————————— Today, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán posted on Facebook a photo of Fox… Read More ›
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TSP Smart: To the Moon
Hey, let’s give ourselves permission to print trillions and trillions anytime we want. Yeah, unelected Capitalist.
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TSP Smart: Insane or Planned
And today, Americans think the stock market will return 17% long-term…(face palm).
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ProPublica: How the Wealthy Avoid Taxes
In the early years, the personal income tax worked as Congress intended, falling squarely on the richest. In 1918, only 15% of American families owed any tax. The top 1% paid 80% of the revenue raised, according to historian W. Elliot Brownlee.
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TSP funds Quicklook:
Fear the Central Banks.
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Bitcoin crashes just like the last time Goldman Sachs got involved.
This is not a factor in TSP investing or other index funds, but it tells us a lot about our money system and how markets can be controlled to a point. And more important, how many narratives are controlled too.