Author Archives: Andrew Jensen
All that glitters is not gold
In California and many other parts of the United States, school-age children learn about the 19th-century gold rush that led tens of thousands to move to California in hopes of striking it rich. As school children learn about this epoch, … Continue reading
Plant once and reap in perpetuity
If you go through our blog posts, you’ll find that we rarely talk about specific investments here. One reason for that is that, in general, being a successful investor has very little to do any particular investment. In fact, it … Continue reading
Don’t Let Anchors Drag You Down
Here at GoalMine, we are devotees of value investing, the philosophy that one should seek out investments that are trading for less than their intrinsic value. Basically, value investing argues that eventually, “truth will out”, and the true value of an investment will be reflected in its stock price and/or dividends paid. Continue reading
Should Auld Investments Be Forgot?
With New Year’s just around the corner, you may be considering changes you’d like to make in 2012. But what about spending a few minutes thinking about those things you’d like not to change? Here are three financial habits that … Continue reading
Jargon Buster: IPO
The acronym IPO stands for initial public offering. An initial public offering is the first time that a private company offers its shares for sale to the public. Companies do this to raise money. Continue reading
5 Elements of Successful Financial Goals
The period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day is traditionally the time when people reflect on the year that is drawing to a close and make resolutions about what they’ll do differently in the year ahead. Although I can’t claim … Continue reading
Lessons from American Airlines
Yesterday’s announcement that American Airlines was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy wasn’t terribly surprising—after all, the stock price of AMR (American’s parent company) had dropped 80% over the past year, they had posted annual losses for three years running, and … Continue reading
GoalMine featured on Fox Business
As you may know, GoalMine has always been about making investing available and accessible to everyone. We seek to make investing simple and easy, and design it to fit into any budget. Others are taking notice of this. Fox Business … Continue reading
Lessons from millionaires
The folks over at Mango Money recently published a blog post about some of the things that millionaires don’t do. While some of the items on the list are really better targeted toward day-to-day activities, many are applicable to investing … Continue reading
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Halloween Special: Why Warren Buffett will survive the zombie apocalypse
You can see your breath in the crisp fall night. The single bulb above your head casts its poor light only a few feet into the darkness; after that, the wispy fog that blankets the ground obscures everything. Your heart … Continue reading →