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Sometimes the “noise” of the day-to-day news cycle keeps us from seeing the bigger trends in life, and I think this truth applies to the financial world more directly than...
In the popular press today, almost every time you see the label “fixed income” it goes with a negative story – often about retired people trying to live on an...
Even the casual follower of economic news today has an idea of how interconnected the global economy is, and few stories are as important as those that deal with China....
I’ve noticed some interesting things about ideas. Often the old ideas are the best ideas and occasionally old ideas are made new again. If you follow business and technology, you...
A lot of investors were quite happy to wave good-bye to 2015. It was a confusing and unpredictable year for a wide array of traditional investments. The Dow Jones Industrial...
Every time we roll into a new year, the financial experts start looking into their crystal balls and make predictions about which investments will go up in price and which...
Have you ever been stereotyped? We all hate it, don’t you agree? We hate it because people take one thing they know about us and then make all kinds of...
Do you have visions of sugarplums or visions of the taxman dancing in your head during this time of the year? This season is a time when we take stock...
Home ownership is at a nearly 50-year low. That’s bad news for the economy as a whole, but it’s even worse news for those individuals who typically would be home...
What do you do when conventional investment wisdom stops working? The S&P 500 has always been one of the best indicators of the health of the stock market. It’s broadly...