Weekly Roundup - April 23, 2016


Just a quick update this week.

This week started off very hectic.  My phone started alarming Sunday night/Monday morning because of a tornado warning luckily though we were spared of that.  However, we couldn't escape the rain which was bad enough to essentially shut down the city of Houston on Monday.  Our area was spared from the flooding, but there's so many areas that were hit extremely hard.  Some spots were estimated to have received 20 inches of rain in about 8 hours which is absolutely ridiculous.  The devastation is eye opening.

There were a couple things that really shocked me about everything that's gone on this past week.  For starters I knew they were expecting rain but I hadn't heard of any forecasts calling for anything quite like this until after the rain started.  The other thing that I don't understand is why some areas weren't evacuated on Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday prior to the flooding getting downstream.  I've seen several reports of people that escaped the initial flooding on Monday just to end up getting flooded out later in the week.  The flood control districts have plenty of computer models and I can only hope that the reason for that was a lack of accurate information and not that someone just completely dropped the ball.

On top of all the rain we received my body finally decided to do its semi-annual sickness recharged.  I don't get sick often and thankfully when I do it's not too bad and this time was no different.  Just lethargy, congestion, some sinus pressure and on and off head aches.  It didn't make for a fun week, but a few days of laying around have gotten me back on track.  So unfortunately I didn't get much writing done.
Now that I'm home again I can get back to sharing some of the definitions from The Devil's Financial Dictionary by Jason Zweig (affiliate link).  For those that don't know the book is a nice little time killer that gives brutally honest and often humorous definitions of finance and investing terminology.

Today's word/definition is:
"Herding, n. - The tendency of investors to ignore what's cheap and act like sheep, moving together in a flock rather than thinking for themselves.  There is safety in numbers, so investors buy assets not because they are undervalued but merely because 'everyone else' is buying them, and sell not because something fundamental has changed but because 'everyone else' is selling."
The herd mentality is something that all investors need to watch out for.  Don't make changes to your portfolio because everyone else is doing so; rather focus on the fundamentals of the companies you own and ignore what everyone else is doing.

On to the Roundup

In case you missed them, here's the posts from Passive-Income-Pursuit this past week.
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Once again I'd like to say thanks to each and every one of you that read, commented, and shared posts from here this past week.  I think this dividend growth investing and financial independence community is amazing and the openness from everyone is awesome.  Thanks again!

Now on to the links!

Dividend Portfolio Sector Allocation April 2016 by DivHut

Make Sure Your Vision Includes Joyful Generosity by Our Next Life

When You Have That Epiphany by Tawcan

Not In Our Portfolio! by Income Surfer

107 Profound Warren Buffett Quotes: Learn to Build Wealth by Sure Dividend

Recent Sell by Roadmap2Retire

Dividend Aristocrats for Dividend Growth and Total Returns by Dividend Growth Investor

How Investors can Benefit from the Millenial Generation by Cash Flow Diaries

Deere (DE): Warren Buffett is Buying More of this High Quality Dividend Stock by Simply Safe Dividends

Lithium: I Missed This Gold Train by FI Fighter

Johnson & Johnson Dividends: The Spring Back Effect by The Conservative Income Investor

Mean Reversion From The Lost Decade by A Wealth of Common Sense

Also, if you're looking for investment ideas, A Frugal Family's Journey keeps a list of stock analyses and recent buys from fellow bloggers.

I hope you all have a great weekend!

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Comments

  1. Glad you guys were spared any issues buddy. As a former stormwater engineer, I can almost guarantee that the rainstorm's intensity (quantity in such a short time period) was the problem. We had a similar storm last July, which exceeded my 500 year/24hour storm modeling event. Crazy stuff.

    Have a great weekend JC
    -Bryan

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    1. Bryan,

      I'm just glad we didn't have any issues at out house. The flooding was so bad and they're saying that some roads might be closed for 4-6 weeks.

      Thasks for stopping by!

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    2. Oh I believe it buddy. It's been 9 months and there are parts of my home town where we are still driving on gravel. Directly in front of my house happens to be one such place. It sucks!

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  2. Glad to hear the recent storms didn't cause you any flooding. Thanks for linking to my article on Warren Buffett quotes.

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  3. Hope you get better from those sinus/head aches. It could be allergy related. Hope its not an infection

    And thanks for the mention on the article discussing the dividend aristocrats.

    Hope you get better soon!



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  4. 20 inches in 8 hours is ridiculous indeed! I'm glad to hear you didn't experience flooding issues. I can't imagine what people suffering from flooding must be going through. Take care, JC!

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