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 …