It always comes as a surprise how fast either a bull or bear market mentality can take hold in the media. A year, two years and, all of a sudden,…
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Everybody makes mistakes. Life is one trip through the buffet line; there’s no rehearsal, no do overs, no second plates. You start at one end and go to the other…
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The situation in Greece is nothing short of financial chaos. Shares on Europe’s stock market shed a full 1% of their value and, here in the U.S., the Dow dropped…
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Even the smartest people among us sometimes fall for myths and fables. Sometimes those myths come in the form of cute sayings that are handed down from generation to generation,…
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One topic in personal finance that is endlessly fascinating is why, in a country that has produced some of the greatest investing returns in the history of our nation, are…
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One of the first basic rules anyone learns running a business is that a dollar saved is better than a dollar in new sales. Small business owners either learn that…
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Everyone defines success differently, so hanging a price tag on financial success is difficult. If your definition of financial success involves private jets, then you’ll have a much higher mountain…
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The market is going to correct. That’s not a prediction; that’s a guarantee. It’s the details of how much the market will correct and when it will happen that make…
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One of the hard facts that becomes immediately apparent when you look at financial surveys is that most people are poor. In a candid look at the average American’s net…
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It would be pretty easy to write the script for a hedge fund manager or brokerage analyst going on one of the cable business shows. First, point to one of…