Money

Anyone flying regularly knows that sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach when the fasten safety belt sign comes on and the captain informs us that we’re in for…

One of the more frustrating aspects to investing is that there are many counter-intuitive forces at work in the economic world. One of those developments that’s hard for people to…

The stock market simply can’t keep going up forever. On the surface that’s a statement we would all agree is true in the abstract but not terribly useful as investment…

The landscape of things that intrude on your life has quietly changed over the last 30 years. Since the 1980s the focus has been on government intrusion but there are…

Predicting the future is always a risky enterprise because the future has a way of making fools of us all. That’s particularly true when it comes to investing. If we…

Other than a core of universal basics, the bulk of what we know about investing today is rooted in the last 50 years. Much of the conventional wisdom we share…

The corporate raiders of the 1980s mined America’s corporate landscape of wealth without adding any value. Today the strip mining of our corporate wealth has largely played out and the…

There’s no point in mincing words when it comes to the U.S. housing market. Your choices will inevitably be between bad, really bad, and intolerable. It’s depressing and ties up…

For a long time many of us participating as fair dealers in the U.S. economy couldn’t shake the feeling that we were playing in a rigged game. Gasoline and oil…

Many people look at successful stock market investors and imagine that they have some super-secret formula that they dreamed up to beat the market. Maybe they have a sixth sense…