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Why Two Focused on One Career Will Beat Out Two Careers Every Time


Traditionally men and women have formed a provider/homemaker couple. The man would get a job and earn the resources needed by the family. The woman would use the resources generated to create a home and care for a family, creating additional resources directly for the family (clothes, preserves, …) as time allowed and making sure…

Which is Better, Competition or Cooperation?


For much of the history of the world, competition has been the model. We compete for land, resources, mates, and everything else we want or need. People compete with each other in school, on the athletic field, in the workplace and in society in general. Nations compete with each other, both economically and in wars.…

How Do You Start Investing?


  Maybe you’ve heard about friends investing and want to get started yourself. You’re looking for the basics to get going. Today we’ll talk about the basics of investing, including different types of investments you may wish to make, mechanics of setting up an investing account and making your first investments. (Note, this site contains…

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Hi, I’m Joe, a.k.a. SmallIvy. I’m a rocket scientist by day, but have been trading and investing for over three decades, starting when I was twelve. Through investing and money management, my wife and I were able to pay off our home and become financially independent by our early forties. This was with only one of us working most of that time and with less than a five-figure income, so it can be done. I’ve got two books published, one on investing to grow wealth and the other on money management with some investing mixed in. Check out the blog and feel free to ask questions in the comments.

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