Entries Tagged as 'Passive Income'

Why you should understand YOC (Yield On Cost)

November 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Did you know that GE is currently promising an annual dividend yield of 7.35% based on today’s closing price of $16.86? While that’s a pretty high dividend rate right from the start, things look even better if you start to think about GE’s long history of raising the dividend. Admittedly, this is based on assumptions, but it is conceivable you could be earning a 19.07% dividend yield in 10 years if GE maintains its recent 10% annual dividend growth.

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What is geographic independence?

November 9th, 2008 · 8 Comments

After a number of discussions with my wife, we’ve agreed that we are setting our long-term financial goal as the achievement of “Geographic Independence”. We define this as having the ability to go wherever we want, whenever we want, in a comfortable manner, without running into financial problems.

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