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Five Steps For Building Wealth Automatically
If you're like millions of other investors,
the number of accounts and bills you have to deal with has grown over
time and your financial life has become increasingly complex. It
probably seems like it's tough enough to make ends meet, much less save
for retirement.
You know you should be keeping better track of your expenses, resisting
frivolous spending, putting money away each month and rebalancing your
portfolio at regular intervals to avoid being knocked around by bubbles
and panics.
Why are such simple steps so hard to take on a regular basis? A growing
body of behavioral finance research indicates that our brains didn't
evolve to handle problems in which rewards and punishments are far in
the future. We face the same issue in trying to manage our weight.
Imagine being constantly tempted with a refrigerator full of cake and
ice cream while being expected to slam it shut and drive across town to
the natural food store every time you're hungry.
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11 startling facts Obama and Bernanke do
NOT want you to think about …
by Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. 04-04-10
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Good morning! I’m having a great
Sunday and I hope you are too! But as soon as you get a chance,
print this report and give a copy to everybody you care about. It
contains 11 staggering facts that every American needs to know — and
that every investor won’t be able to succeed without …
FACT #1: The official national debt now stands at $12.68 trillion —
an amount equal to about 88.5% of all the goods and services our
economy produces in an entire year.
FACT #2: Contingent obligations for Social Security, Medicare,
Medicaid, veterans, and pensions now stand at an additional $108
trillion over and above the “official” national debt.
FACT #3: State, county and local governments are nearly $3 trillion
in debt. Many can’t pay and will ultimately demand that Washington
assume responsibility for that debt as well.
FACT #4: Total federal, state and local government indebtedness now
stands at a mind-blowing $123.6 trillion.
FACT #5: Last year, Washington added $1.4 trillion to the debt. In
this fiscal year, the Obama administration will add another $1.6
trillion!
FACT #6: In addition to funding the current trillion-dollar-plus
deficits, the U.S. Treasury must borrow MORE each year to replace
bills, notes and bonds that are maturing.
FACT #7: This record-shattering borrowing by the Treasury has
resulted in a Mt. Everest of Treasury obligations being dumped onto
the market, which naturally depresses bond prices and drives
interest rates higher.
FACT #8: In a desperate attempt to keep interest rates low, the
Bernanke Federal Reserve has created $1.25 trillion out of thin air
to buy mortgage-backed securities … another $300 billion to buy U.S.
Treasuries … and yet another $170.6 billion to buy other government
bonds — a total of nearly $1.7 trillion in all.
FACT #9: From September 10, 2008 to March 10 of this year, Bernanke
increased the nation’s monetary base from $850 billion to $2.1
trillion — a 250% increase in just 18 months.
FACT #10: Despite this massive money-printing, the yield on the
benchmark 10-year Treasury note has STILL risen by more than
one-fifth — from 3.2% to 3.86% — since December.
FACT #11: Because of this massive money-printing, the U.S. dollar
has lost nearly 10% of its value in the past 12
months alone.
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