Accounting for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Many leaders of Not For Profits are not "numbers people." The real challenge often lies in the language.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

A quick post for halftime reading. Check out the following. While the performance wasn't optimal it was in the ballpark. The growth rate, combined with an adequate savings rate would be enough to get the job done, even if it isn't optimal (repeated for emphasis). To be clear though, the Mystery Fund is not intended to be a single portfolio solution.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Here are some random things I’ve been thinking, reading and watching lately: The Big Long wouldn’t sell nearly as many copies as The Big Short but its readers would make far more money. P.S. I’m writing a new book. Still workshopping the title. * This was some good father-son financial advice on Landman: You got two choices in life: Get really good at balancing a check book or make enough money th.

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Calculated Risk

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

From Dodge Data Analytics: Dodge Momentum Index Grows 6% in January The Dodge Momentum Index (DMI), issued by Dodge Construction Network, grew 5.6% in January to 225.7 (2000=100) from the revised December reading of 213.6. Over the month, commercial planning increased 4.2% while institutional planning improved 8.7%. Nonresidential planning activity saw diversified growth in January, with every vertical experiencing positive momentum, stated Sarah Martin, associate director of forecasting at Dodg

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Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

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FEBRUARY 9, 2025

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: That Giant Sucking Sound? Its Climate Change Devouring Your Homes Value. As the compounding impacts of climate-driven disasters take effect, we are seeing home insurance prices spike around the country, pushing up the costs of owning a home. In some cases, insurance companies are pulling out of towns altogether.

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Abnormal Returns

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Strategy Ben Carlson, "The pandemic turned us all into a bunch of degenerate gamblers." (awealthofcommonsense.com) How much active management do we need to have a relatively efficient stock market? (humbledollar.com) You have to stay in the game long enough to allow compounding to work. (buildingthingsthatlast.substack.com) Crypto A look at the few who made, and many that lost, money on $TRUMP.

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