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Amazon Limit Orders (opens the original)
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Issue #293If you’re like me, you buy a lot of products from Amazon. Traditionally, there have been three different ways to make or save money on Amazon: (1) using Amazon Subscribe & Save (which can save you between 5% and about 15%), using an Amazon credit card to pay for purchases (which gives you 5% cash back), and delaying receipt of a package by a day or two (if offered), which provides an additional 1% (or 2% during busy times like Cyber Monday) cash back.In recent years, there’s been a Pri
Road Trips (opens the original)
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Issue #292I seldom leave the reservation. When you live in a place that’s peaceful, beautiful and safe, and virtually everything that lies outside the gates involves people leading lives of noisy desperation, there’s little reason to leave. Even the “traffic jams” here consist of waiting for wildlife to cross the road (recently I had to wait for fawns, boarho
Collecting Dividends (opens the original)
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Issue #291Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in. ~ John D. RockefellerAccording to Brave AI, “This quote, first recorded in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1908, reflects Rockefeller’s investment philosophy. After stepping down from day-to-day operations of Standard Oil in 1896, he retained his shares and mandated that the company pay out over two-thirds of its profits as dividends. For the remaining 41 years of his life, he collected these checks, levera
Credit Cards (opens the original)
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Issue #290At a time when almost everything has become expensive (often egregiously so), you can usually reduce the net cost by quite a bit by using credit cards that offer rewards. Over several decades, I have received many thousands of dollars worth of rewards.First things first: If you don’t pay off the full balance of each of your credit cards every month via automatic payments, then don’t use a credit card until you get this squared away, because the late fees and exorbitant
Patience (opens the original)
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Issue #289This Summer I haven’t placed many trades or had many get filled. A casual observer might conclude that this investment advisor has been derelict in his duties. For most people, the mere act of trading is prima facie evidence that I’m on the hunt, working hard to make money for my clients. The more I’m chasing after the mechanical rabbit, the harder I must be working for them.Here’s the problem with that notion: Contrary to what most investors believe, significant opportunities and high
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