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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, …

The situation in Greece is nothing short of financial chaos. Shares on Europe’s stock market shed a full 1% of their value and, here in the U.S., the Dow dropped …

The U.S. and China are at war, only it’s not with guns, bombs and missiles. You won’t see burned out homes on television or streams of refugees leaving cities but …

This is a headline that most people would agree is long overdue. One of the frustrating aspects to the Great Recession of 2007/2008 is that while corporate profits and executive …

What caused the Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia that killed 7 people will likely turn out to be an engineer going 106 mph on a curve rated for 50 mph. No …

One thing you can count right around this time of year is a series of gloomy economic forecasts. There’s a reason one of the stock market’s favorite witticisms is “sell …

Change is inevitable in life and in markets but that doesn’t mean you’re always going to like the new direction. For as long as most of us can remember U.S. …

It’s a big mistake to think of the renewable energy sector as some left-wing, tree-hugging alternative to “real” power production. Forget global warming; think of renewable energy in terms of …

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 …

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 …