It’s risky calling ups or downs on the stock market because, to quote Jeb Bush, stuff happens. Were one to suggest that stocks are due for an irregular recovery the…
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If you have more than $1,000 in cash in a savings account, congratulations, you’re part of a thrifty minority in America. According to a survey by GOBankingRates.com and supported by…
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There are a lot of factors that feed into wealth and poverty. There’s an unfortunate tendency to look upon poor people and think that they are poor because they’re lazy…
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The stock market, for years a friend to anyone with money in the market, has now turned. Flat is the new up and down is the new normal. On the…
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Normally stocks zoom and the bond market waffles when the Fed puts off an interest rate hike, but today we see why investment advice always contains the phrase “past results…
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The stock market is definitely not for the faint of heart in August. The entire month has been a pretty steady beat down, interrupted briefly by one of the biggest…
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The recent stock market gyrations can be disconcerting, particularly when you’re worried about being able to retire. Yet the very forces that made the stock market so disturbing for some…
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It’s been a good run for the stock market, staging one of the greatest comebacks in market history and becoming the third longest bull market since 1900. Unfortunately the other…
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The bull market has been going strong for the last six years but, like any engine that’s running red hot, at some point something is going to break. We may…
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A surprising number of Americans have little in the way of investments and a sad number have none at all. One has to wonder how the non-investing fraction of our fellow…