Regular investors don’t need to have an encyclopedic mastery of every syllable of The Street’s colorful financial wordplay, but knowing the most important basic terms and concepts can add to a moreRead More…
Your Average Joe Economics: It’s called the business CYCLE for a reason!
There’s a lot of talk about recession these days, as if it were the first time we’d ever faced one. No, their not great, but we’ve been down this road before, 13Read More…
The Money Mistake Clinic: Planned Selling vs. Panic Selling
Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people’s failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they areRead More…
Money Mistake Clinic: Chasing the Unicorn.
Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people’s failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they areRead More…
Investing? Don’t trust your gut.
The trick is not to learn to trust your gut feelings, but rather to discipline yourself to ignore them. -Peter Lynch
Book Report: Wall Street and the Code of the West
Searching through my bookshelves to find books to keep or donate, and to reacquaint with a few classics, I pulled out a favorite that I haven’t paged through for a while. FirstRead More…
Money Mistake Clinic: Never leave free money on the retirement plan table.
Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people’s failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they areRead More…
Its your money. Are you the passenger or the driver?
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. -Ayn Rand
Stock market selloffs. How does a steep decline affect you.
The Dow dropped 603 points on Friday, a 2% decline for January’s final session, still leaving the index priced at over 28,000. Because of the record highs in almost every index, specificallyRead More…
Money Mistake Clinic: You can control what happens to your money.
Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people’s failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they areRead More…