"economy"

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 …

By the officially accepted standard, the U.S. is now the number two economy in the world. To be sure there are people now arguing that the standard isn’t fair or …

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 …

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 …

For a long time many of us participating as fair dealers in the U.S. economy couldn’t shake the feeling that we were playing in a rigged game. Gasoline and oil …

The numbers don’t lie, Americans are addicted to debt. The numbers available as of July 2014 paint an alarming picture of a populace drunk on borrowing and on a collision …

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 …

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 …

Mobile technology has been transforming the world for a long time but few parts of our lives are going to be impacted quite as much as transportation. It’s one thing …

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 …