Personal Finance

I’m sure everyone has heard the old truism that money can’t buy happiness. The problem with that statement is that scientific experiments have shown, again and again, that higher incomes…

It’s almost tax time again and most people who haven’t filed already are in the midst of organizing their receipts and sorting through W2s and 1099s. For far too many…

Back on the 2nd of February I encouraged our readers to stay invested in the stock market. If you listened, you had one of the biggest months in equities since…

The title may be a bit harsh but the subject is a harsh truth and there are some differences of opinion. Investopedia, a site that typically has excellent career and…

There is a lot of good news in today’s economic numbers but you couldn’t tell by talking to the average person. According to a survey by the American Psychological Association,…

Last year I speculated that 2015 was going to be a tougher year for equities than what we’ve been used to seeing and gold prices would rebound. So far 2015…

If you thought the volatility in the first month of 2015 has been wild so far, that was just the warm up act. This week promises to bring even more…

For investors saying that 2015 started off with a bang would be a massive understatement. While it was fairly easy to see that volatility was coming, the size of the…

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…