Now is the time to build your financial literacy so you can in the near future successfully invest and close your own wealth gap. Investing in the stock market is not reserved for the wealthy, or those with fancy degrees and titles.
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Support and vote for those candidates that strongly support the rights of ALL {Wealthy, Poor, Black, White, ALL) parents to have choice of schools, including Private, Charter and Home Schooling.”
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I believe education is the first building block to a financially stable and successful life.
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In the 1987 movie, Wall Street, actor Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko, said, "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." The reality is greed wrecked our economy causing the 2008 Real Estate and Stock Market recession! Greed may put some Kodak Company executives in prison for alleged insider stock trading. So, let’s replace the word greed with LEVERAGE. Leverage/Debt is a powerful tool, when SMARTLY utilized in real ...
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I grew up in small southern town in North Carolina (NC) where there were more chickens than people. In High School, my classmates self-divided into two groups being those who applied to college and those who wanted to immediately work after graduation. Since birth I heard, “you are going to college OR ELSE” so I applied to college and graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering. One of my classmates ...
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Since the March crash, the stock market is on a bull run and new investors are jumping in the pool! Just in March 2020, more people opened an account with E-Trade than all of 2019! Several of you have asked my advice on buying individual stocks. A STOCK PRICE CAN DO THREE THINGS: Go Up Stay Flat Go Down. You and I want to invest in companies whose shares are going up. ...
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Both major and small brokerage firms, such as Fidelity and Charles Schwab now permit the purchase of fractional shares. A fractional share purchase allows you to buy a small portion of a stock, with as little as $5.00. Meaning you can own a fraction of an expensive stock like Amazon or Tesla. {Not recommending these stocks!} BROKERAGE FIRMS ALLOWING FRACTIONAL SHARE PURCHASES BROKERAGE TRADING FEES ACCOUNT MINIMUMS and MINIMUM SIZED FRACTIONAL SHARES Charles Schwab $0/trade $5.00 minimum ...
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Albert Einstein stated, “Compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world. He who understands it, (the financially literate) earns it; he who doesn't, pays it.” Compounding normally refers to a bank account, and generally means you will collect interest on your money. Moreover, compounding also applies to other investments such as real estate and stock ownership. Example- On January 2, 2020, you purchased one share of Powers, Inc., at a price of ...
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Last week I discussed the critical importance of financial literacy. Continuing the importance of learning, I asked a good friend, Deb Grubbe, for her thoughts. By: Deborah L. Grubbe, PE, CEng “I sat in a class of 50 kids for my total 8 years of Catholic education. The size of the classroom and the rank of the system means absolutely nothing if the student is disciplined, the teachers are devoted, and ...
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Recent weeks activities have included: Peaceful protest, Violence, Looting, Property Destruction, Lynching of statues (I don’t get that one) a Black Lives Matter, so called leader, stated “If we do not get the changes we demand, we will burn this government down”, and the popular Defund the Police. So far, every action has resulted in ZERO change and I expect that to be the case this time next year. One action ...
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