personal investments

The stock market this week is not for the faint of heart. Markets shed nearly $1.8 trillion in wealth over the span of three trading days. You have to go…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

One of the biggest obstacles to weaning people off the siren song of the debt economy and getting them to think about investing and getting on the right side of…

The last time I said something good about the economy one of my readers called me delusional. Fortunately I didn’t let that opinion change my investment strategy and it paid…

There’s nothing rational about the stock market; if markets were rational the financial entertainment industry would be out of business almost overnight. The fact is markets are wildly irrational because…