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My Friend Herman Cain Says, "Go Out and Get Rich"

by Bradley Voight on 01/08/13

I do not know Mr. Cain but something he said during his short run for president is so very true and it makes him my friend (even if I'm not his friend). In addressing the Occupy Wall Street movement Mr. Cain said, "Don't be angry at the rich, go out and get rich"

Some wealthy people inherited money but many, many people have worked hard to achieve wealth and Mr. Cain is one of them. I read a book called, 'The Millionaire Fast Lane' by M.J. DeMarco and it told me that I was wasting my spare time and that it was my fault that I was not wealthy, not the rich peoples fault. The author was right...dead right. I was wasting countless hours that became years. At 41 I woke up to the fact that I could use my spare time to learn something to make extra money and I chose to learn about stocks. The free information available about investing is mind boggling. I have been studying for almost three years and I am poised to cash in on that knowledge already. What are you doing with your spare time?

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Greetings from the Post-Mayan Apocalypse!

by Bradley Voight on 01/08/13

Rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. We are still here and we are still left to solve all of the great problems that face us on planet earth. You know sometimes I think that people actually want the world to end to get it over with and I can understand that, in a way, but I also love life and the challenges it brings to us and I am not ready for our world to end.

The major problem of our future is finite resources being stretched to supply 10 billion people. As I see it a two pronged approach is needed to combat this problem going forward

1. Get people to consume less, while still enjoying a good standard of living.

2. Recycle everything that can be recycled.

Our economy is built on consumption, so #1 is difficult, but here is what I propose; don't let India's and China's economies consume to the point where their countries' are full of self storage facilities. Americans have so much crap that they will never use and they cram it into self storage units, most of which stop being paid for by the renter and have to be auctioned or disposed of. Having things is not a bad thing, but having 3 houses worth of furniture and 5 closets of clothes is. The average Chinese citizen born today will consume more than 8 times the goods and services that the previous generation consumed. We might really need to mine asteroids to get the materials we need to keep consuming.

The second part should be easy. We know the recyclable materials, most of them are labeled, and yet we continue to pitch them in the garbage because we are so used to our throw away ways. I think the recycling issue needs to be reexamined and a new education campaign needs to be crafted to reach the public and inform them truthfully about the finite nature of the resources that we pull out of the ground. Perhaps then people would recognize the importance of recycling.

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America is Stuck in the 1980's

by Bradley Voight on 11/29/12

I was in the car the other day, which is where I spend a lot of time seeing as how I am a courier, and I was flipping through the radio dial. I hit the seek button and eight stations in a row were playing a song from the 80's. It is more than just a coincidence the 80's were America's golden age and many of us have a hard time understanding that they are over. The 80's were the time when America had a huge party and it was all caught on MTV. Just like the movie 'Weird Science' everyone had a big old time but unlike the movie there is no magic hot chick to make everything alright. We were all gonna party like it was 1999 cause even I thought that we would surely not make it to 2000, let alone 2012, nuclear destruction was a certainty in my mind. The 80's left an imprint on the consciousnesses of America that I believe is hindering us from seeing what is in the now. It was evident in the recent election, which was close in the popular vote, that the demographic of our nation has changed and will rapidly continue changing from here on out.

49 million people are in poverty in today's America and the federal government is at least 13 trillion dollars in the hole; both unprecedented numbers and no solutions in sight for either of them. Smalltime is here to wake you up from the 80's and let you know how you can prepare for and profit from trends forming now that are shaping the future.

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Small Time Investing; Big Time Rewards

by Bradley Voight on 11/05/12

Please let me preface this post by saying that I am not endorsing Monster Energy products nor am I suggesting that anyone buy any particular securities. I am simply using Monster as an example to illustrate what is possible in the internet age. In February of 2004, Monster Energy Company (formerly Hansen Natural Co.) was a 42 cent per share stock. Despite the recent negative news surrounding this stock it closed last week at $44.03. So here is the arithmetic: if you invested $100 @ $.42 cents per share in 2/2004, you would have $10,000 as of last Fridays' close, here is a link to the chart for Monster; notice in the lower right that the stock is up over 50,000% since 1996. http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=MNST+Interactive#symbol=mnst;range=my;compare=;indicator=sma(50,200)+volume;charttype=candlestick;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;

This year alone I have picked up at least $450 worth of aluminum cans. I have an online brokerage account which I was able to start for just $500. In this age of free information I am searching high and low for companies that could be the next 50,000% gainer and they ARE out there. The trend is your friend and a rising tide lifts all boats. These are the phrases that make the rich rich and our ignorance of them keeps you and I on the treadmill. Energy drinks were the trend and if your boat (your money) was in the water than the rising tide multiplied your money.

I encourage all who read this to understand the possibilities that exist today in the internet age. I emphasize today because the web is like cable TV. We were lured in by no commercials and now there are more commercials on cable than on antenna TV! The web is mostly free but it is easing toward pay for your information and before it is all over you will have to pay per click. Right now is THE TIME to make use of the free resources of sites like Stockcharts.com and finance.yahoo.com. The economy is transitioning in many ways. New technologies are sprouting up across the industrial, medical, and commercial spectrum and new trends are being formed as we speak. Think about it, that smartphone you have did not exist in the market just 15 years ago and several companies have enjoyed massive growth due to this new technology. The opportunities are out there so build your scrap pile, cash it in, and take your small money to the market and help it grow up big and strong.

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Water World

by Bradley Voight on 10/10/12

Smalltime would like to talk about the one thing that everyone needs and that is water. I do not have to use concrete numbers or any other data to let you know that the world is headed for a major water nightmare in the future. I am deeply concerned and you should be too if you are 40 or younger. We are going to be around to see the world population reach 10 billion and all of those people using water is only part of the story. Industrial processes including hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking' and factory farms will use half, if not more, of all of the fresh water that we use. If the population keeps on expanding at this rate, there will be wars fought over water in the very near future.

Smalltime would just like for you to be aware of your water usage but we would also like to give you information on how you could profit from the coming water problems. In the bottom left hand corner of our home page is a widget with a few water ETF's among other green stocks and funds. I am not qualified to give investment advice and I am not a licensed financial adviser but I do know a good trend when I see one and water is going to become more scarce in the future, simple supply and demand.

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