The Coffeehouse Investor

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This non-commercial web site is for investors across the nation and around the world who recognize and embrace the sophistication of simplicity in their investment portfolios as well as their personal lives.

The Coffeehouse Investor does not provide financial advice - our purpose is to provide creative education for investors who want to build wealth, ignore Wall Street and get on with their lives by making informed, intelligent investment decisions.

From the Blog

Making Lemonade

Published December 19th, 2008

When life throws you a lemon, make lemonade.

In this case, the lemon happens to be the miserable returns the stock market has generated for your portfolio, not only during the past twelve months, but over the previous decade.

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Your Financial Plan – Time go get Serious

Published November 10th, 2008

The election is over and our country moves forward with president-elect Barack Obama, who has his work cut out for him. Unemployment numbers are up and retail sales are down sharply; proof enough that we are staring into the teeth of a fairly severe recession.

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The Madness of Markets

Published October 22nd, 2008

Last week’s OP-ED piece in The New York Times, “Buy American. I Am.”, by Warren Buffett was interesting on several fronts.

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Stay the Course

Published October 6th, 2008

The stock market, after dropping over 800 points today, closed down 370 points, reacting largely to the growing credit problems in Europe and weakening economies in Asia. I want to share my thoughts with you in regards to the current situation.

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