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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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…
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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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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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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…
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Normally you don’t have to tell people they’re living on the edge of financial disaster; most already know and are trying desperately not to think about it. The reason those…
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Imagine your job is setting up a booth where you give out free money, we’ll call it the Money Booth. That sounds like a fun job, right? That’s a job…