Lessons Learned

Ularu about 400 km outside Alice Springs, Central Australia, 2014

I wasn’t born in Alice Springs but I got here as soon as I could

Here’s the story that goes with my tag line … How do you go from growing up in a log cabin in the back woods of New Hampshire to the Central Australian outback?  It’s a long story. I like to say, “I wasn’t born in Alice Springs but I got here as soon as I […]

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Financial Weights

How do you build financial muscle mass?

Hint: You gotta lift the weights …  Want to build financial muscle mass? Want to become financially fit? Then let me tell you the secret … you gotta lift the weights. To get a feel for what I’m talking about, check out this ridiculous situation … Which guy gets strong? A scrawny guy walks up to a physical […]

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Big government must lord over private business, else society would collapse … or would it? (Big Government by Mark T on flickr)

What’s so bad about government control of business?

What’s so bad about government control of business? Glad you asked. Good question. How do I answer in less than five hundred pages? Going to be tricky, but I’ll give it a go. By the way, government control of business has a name. That’s right, there’s a name for it, it’s already been labeled. It’s […]

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How to get a good lawyer for FREE

I stumbled upon a way to get a good lawyer for free.  Yes, it’s true.  I got a good lawyer to work for me and I didn’t pay a cent. How did I do it? Easy, I had someone else pay. Who? Another good question and I’ll explain by telling the story of how I […]

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But, what if house prices keep dropping?

BUT, WHAT IF HOUSE PRICES KEEP DROPPING? Here’s a BUT question I encountered a lot while searching for property in Florida in late 2010.  Seemed like the conventional thinking was property prices were going to drop to zero.  I remember a particular encounter when this question popped up.  It was during a bank visit to […]

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