Weekly Roundup - July 30, 2016

Happy Weekend!  Check out what's been going on in my world and some of the best articles from around the blogosphere.

3 weeks.  In just about 12 hours our daughter will be 3 weeks old.  It's hard to believe that she's already been here this long.  Things have been going a little bit better with her now that we're spacing out her nighttime feeds and only waking her up if she sleeps for 5 hours over night.  It's really helping out my wife for getting sleep, although it does make her a bit more fussy/hungry in the mornings.  *My daughter, not my wife.


Other than dealing with our daughter it was a pretty quiet week.  We aren't exactly living it up right now and the markets aren't offering anything compelling.  Although there were 2 dividend raises for my holdings this week which is always a good thing.

Also special thanks are owed to Bryan of Income Surfer for a guest post this week! 

The Devil's Financial Dictionary by Jason Zweig (affiliate link) is a nice little time killer that gives brutally honest and often humorous definitions of different finance and investing terminology.

Today's word/definition is:

"Volatility, n. - The extent to which an investment's short-term returns differ from its long-term average returns, technically known as standard deviation and colloquially known as 'Oh my God!'"

On to the Roundup

In case you missed them, here's the posts from Passive-Income-Pursuit over the past week.

• Net Worth Update - June 2016
• Why I Always Have Direct Investment Exposure To International Markets
• Wal-Mart Is A Rare Deal On Sale In A Toppy Market on Seeking Alpha
• Taking Aim At Target Corporation on Seeking Alpha
• Dividend Growth Investing at Work - Realty Income Does It Again

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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!

This Quarter Has Been Adjusted by Income Surfer

Make Money Work For You: A Primer For Millenials on Sure Dividend

Reading Between The Lines by Roadmap2Retire

Is The Golden Era Of Dividend Growth Over? by Josh Peters

The Evolution Of Our Early Retirement Vision by Our Next Life

Spot The Red Flags by A Wealth of Common Sense

First Time In A Long Time by Dividend Hustler

Four Attractively Valued Dividend Growth Stocks For Further Research by Dividend Growth Investor

Our Ultra-Safe Early Retirement Plan by Eat The Financial Elephant

Setting Goals...What's That? by FI Fighter

Implementing My DGI Strategy by Div4Son

Recent Buy: Nike, Inc. by DivGro

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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