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…
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Personal Finance
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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If you like wild, careening roller coasters with blind curves and death drops, then you were right at home in the stock market lately. Stocks fell, then rose to dizzying…
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A truism is a widely held belief that may, or may not, have any real basis in fact. Some truisms are helpful and most of them are harmless. A few…
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For the past five years the stock market has been on a bull run that will go down in history as one of the easiest times to make money in…
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The pace of modern life is fast and the sheer speed of it all can be stressful. Most people have enough trouble fighting the daily dragons that swoop in to…
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Denial is a powerful force in human nature and a very deeply ingrained component of our character; a psychological defense mechanism that helped our ancestors live long enough to reproduce.…