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http://www.emilycressey.com/blog Creating Financial Freedom Using Real Estate For Wealth, and Business For Cash Flow Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:59:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/are-you-getting-out-of-the-market http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/are-you-getting-out-of-the-market#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:45:03 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2009/03/04/are-you-getting-out-of-the-market/ I promised I’d keep you up to date on the stock market insights passed along from my Father who spend a good deal of his time immersed in the financial news of the day.  And there is some heated political commentary here which I don’t apologize for since I think the misguided “fairness” policies of [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/are-you-getting-out-of-the-market/feed 0 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/buyer-beware-lessons-from-panzi-scheme-billionaire-bernard-madoff http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/buyer-beware-lessons-from-panzi-scheme-billionaire-bernard-madoff#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:37:27 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2008/12/16/buyer-beware-lessons-from-panzi-scheme-billionaire-bernard-madoff/ Aye, Carumba!  Apparently government isn’t the only place there’s graft!  Last Thursday, officials pulled the lid off billionaire money manager Bernard Madoff’s 20-year-old Panzi scheme. Madoff’s illicit “investment fund” paid an attractive 8-12% return reliably, no matter what the markets did.  That, say investigators, was red flag number one. My mother and I chatted about this last [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/buyer-beware-lessons-from-panzi-scheme-billionaire-bernard-madoff/feed 0 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/ask-the-experts-coming-soon http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/ask-the-experts-coming-soon#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:48:11 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2008/12/09/ask-the-experts-coming-soon/ I don’t care if you’re right, as long as you agree with me! Do you prefer to read information that lines up with your own views and reinforces your beliefs, or do you prefer to be exposed to a broad variety of topics of interest, knowing that you may "go ballistic" or "through the roof" when [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/ask-the-experts-coming-soon/feed 0 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/whats-happening-out-there-with-stocks-down-the-economy-down-and-retirement-looming http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/whats-happening-out-there-with-stocks-down-the-economy-down-and-retirement-looming#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:44:20 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2008/12/08/whats-happening-out-there-with-stocks-down-the-economy-down-and-retirement-looming/ Americans face uncertainty in deciding where to go next with stocks down, and less money to invest With bad news on the economy flying around the newsstands, through the airwaves, and across the blogosphere, it’s easy to get frozen by information and paralyzed as we wait for the other shoe to drop.  It’s easy, in [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/whats-happening-out-there-with-stocks-down-the-economy-down-and-retirement-looming/feed 1 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/have-you-contributed-to-your-roth-lately http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/have-you-contributed-to-your-roth-lately#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:33:39 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2008/12/05/have-you-contributed-to-your-roth-lately/ I was reading an article yesterday by a financial advisor for financial advisors.  The author, Evan Cooper, mentioned a recent teleconference he had hosted in which he reminded his 1,000+ listeners of something I had always known, but which came across as frightening when he described it… He succinctly defined the changing state of retirement plans [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/have-you-contributed-to-your-roth-lately/feed 4 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/the-recessions-here-lets-cheer-up-and-look-at-the-bright-side http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/the-recessions-here-lets-cheer-up-and-look-at-the-bright-side#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:05:54 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2008/12/04/the-recessions-here-lets-cheer-up-and-look-at-the-bright-side/ Even though they changed the definition of "recession" – the word is out – it’s official – we are in a recession and have been since December 2007. Understandably, this can be depressing news – especially around the holidays. Lighten the economic mood in your house with these sunny ideas: It’s time to start saving money, again!  After [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/the-recessions-here-lets-cheer-up-and-look-at-the-bright-side/feed 0 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/warren-buffetts-buying-stocks-maybe-we-should-too http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/warren-buffetts-buying-stocks-maybe-we-should-too#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:14:43 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2008/12/03/warren-buffetts-buying-stocks-maybe-we-should-too/ One famous quote from Warren Buffett, the renowned billionaire investor and founder of Berkshire Hathaway is: "Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful." After years of sitting by the sidelines with his money in bonds – while the U.S. Stock market rose to unprecedented levels, and the real estate market [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/warren-buffetts-buying-stocks-maybe-we-should-too/feed 0 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/whats-your-biggest-obstacle-with-financial-planning-for-retirement http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/whats-your-biggest-obstacle-with-financial-planning-for-retirement#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:25:02 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2008/12/03/whats-your-biggest-obstacle-with-financial-planning-for-retirement/ I was talking with a friend from church last week whose husband works (worked?) for WAMU bank and who told me her husband would find out on Monday whether he still had a job.  Here in Seattle it’s big news that Washington Mutual is going to be cutting 3,000 employees – not good news for [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/whats-your-biggest-obstacle-with-financial-planning-for-retirement/feed 2 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/balancing-a-portfolio-with-real-estate-in-it http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/balancing-a-portfolio-with-real-estate-in-it#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:54:20 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2008/08/11/balancing-a-portfolio-with-real-estate-in-it/ A recent caller I heard on The Dave Ramsey radio show had an interesting question about balancing her portfolio when she was investing in both stocks and mutual funds.  Her husband loved investing in real estate and liked to be very hands-on with their properties.  She was more comfortable with owning stocks and mutual funds [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/balancing-a-portfolio-with-real-estate-in-it/feed 0 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/advice-to-a-29-year-old-wealth-builder http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/advice-to-a-29-year-old-wealth-builder#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:34:41 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2008/07/09/advice-to-a-29-year-old-wealth-builder/ One great way to get free advice is to ask for it! Last month, we got an email from one of our newsletter subscribers who had been in touch off-and-on and following our work for a while.  Both my partner Rob Powell and I took the time to respond to his very polite questions.  (Of [...]
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