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At this time of year, I realize that I am one of the fortunate individuals who works for a company that still provides a good employer share purchase plan as well as matching pension contributions. Although these contributions happen on a monthly basis for me, it is during spring that I am especially glad because it is when bonuses are paid. Never mind the additional cash I receive from the bonus - the best part is that this bonus is subject to the same matching that I receive all year for …

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Despite all the videos of cats playing the piano or family vacations (which I am guilty of sharing), there are some useful investing related videos and channels available for a dividend investor to peruse on YouTube. I personally have never really viewed them until this past weekend and must admit that there are some pretty good resources available. Some are obviously better than others but overall I learned a few things while developing this list. [ad#tdg-embedded] The following list is the …

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This is a guest post by The Weakonomist. His posts provide a excellent perspective on finance and I have enjoyed reading his posts. Please ensure you visit his blog and sign up to his RSS feed. Over the last 18 months, I've watched everyone I care about lose faith in the stock market. It's pretty much expected in any recession, but this is my first recession as an adult so it's been painful to watch. This is especially painful because I am responsible for selling them on the power of …

Continue Reading about Financial Pascalism: Have Faith In The Markets

The only investment "given" that I know for certain is that markets go up and down. I suspect that anyone out there can argue with that. Whether you look at it from a short-term day by day perspective or a long-term 50 year time horizon the market has been proven time and time again to do just that. Most likely the stock market is going to continue doing this in the future. So what does that mean considering we are in what many are calling a very historic stock market correction based on …

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