Moolanomy weekly roundup #11: “Investing” edition

This week money lesson was about investment vehicles, so I think it’s appropriate to have an investing themed weekly roundup. Also, I wrote “The Weak Dollar is Killing Americans’ Wealth” for Consumerism Commentary last Thursday, please give it a read if you missed it.

Here are some excellent posts about investing this week:

• Brip Blap presents staying put in a rocky market. This is a great commentary on buy and hold, selling on panic, the recent Fed Rate Cut (as being a bad long-term move), the sub-prime meltdown, and the weakening dollar. Should I tell him that despite the gain, he actually has less money due to devaluation of the U.S. dollar?
• All Financial Matters presents Equity Harvesting: A Good Idea? Your primary residence is your home, don’t mess with it.
• Money and Such presents Advanced Portfolio Building. This article is an excellent write up on asset allocation and diversification. I am thinking about adding bonds to my portfolio and this article really helped.
  
• Quest For Four Pillars presents Recession Investing. Another excellent article that specifically discuss recession and investing. Although it’s impossible for a lay investor like me to predict a recession, one thing I am certain about is that my portfolio has been geared toward high performing stock market for the past few years. It is good to read a post like this, so that I am forced to think about making my portfolio more balanced.
• Get Rich Slowly presents One Man Who Beats the Market (and His Suggestions for Individual Investors). Perhaps this is a good example of what my portfolio ought to look like. Although I doubt I will increase Treasury securities to 30% as depicted in the post.

Now my favorite posts from the M-Network this week:

• Being Frugal (RSS) presents Six Supermarket Savings Secrets, a guest post by Linda Bustos.
• Christian Finance (RSS) presents Do I need an Emergency Fund?
• DebtFREE-Revolution (RSS) presents Best Pizza of Clarksville
• Gather Little By Little (RSS) presents Finding and Killing Nemo along with my Debt Snowball
• I’ve Paid For This Twice Already… (RSS) presents My Bulk Buying Leads to Lifestyle Inflation
• Plonkee Money (RSS) presents prepaid electricity and saving money
• Single Guy Money (RSS) presents How I became a Landlord….
• The Dough Roller (RSS) presents Stop Frittering Away The Fruits Of Your Frugality

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday (and for some of you Monday also).

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