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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, …

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 …

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 …

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. …

PERRY J’ACCUSE: Texas Governor and rumored 2016 Presidential candidate Rick Perry was indicted by an Austin grand jury for two felony counts of alleged abuse of power. Republican Perry is …

The economy and personal finance are moving targets and that makes conventional wisdom a rear-facing metric. One topic that goes a long way back in conventional thinking is the concept …

You’re on the street again after all these years. Your work life went by in a blink. Maybe you’re interviewing at this late date because you have to work – …

Despite its flaws, America is still the greatest entrepreneurial market in the world. You wouldn’t know it listening to the perpetual gloom, doom and petty whining of popular media, but …

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 …