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One of the challenges in our modern financial world is the financial entertainment industry, which long ago left actual financial news reporting in the rear view mirror, and now acts…

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.” — William Feather Suppose you felt certain the…

Ready… get set… trade! Speed trading — or high frequency trading (HFT), the preferred parlance of regulators — doesn’t operate that fast.  It operates much faster.  You read it right…

A noted investment adviser likes to ease his clients’ pain when the value of their portfolio dips by uttering this comment:  “Don’t worry.  Your portfolio will do just fine.  After…

There’s understandable concern in some quarters about the poor savings habits of Millennials — the generation now in their early 20s and 30s.  Of eligible workers under 25, only 43%…

One of the things I’ve noticed over the years is that the financial mistakes people make are surprisingly consistent. And those mistakes are frequently repeated by the smartest people in…

For a brief time the NASDAQ was outperforming both the S&P 500 and Dow on a yearly basis. That was before the big bummer where the tech-heavy NASDAQ got hammered,…

If you have any friends in the arts, you’ve probably been hit up for money via crowdfunding, a mass gathering of wallets designed to push forward new projects that need…

There’s still this impression in the financial entertainment media that investing in index fund is great for “beginners,” but it’s not something savvy investors do. The reason those articles pop…

There’s an unfortunate misconception among many that conflates the terms “frugal” and “cheap,” even though they carry quite different meanings. When someone says “cheap,” they’re talking about getting a product…