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Have you ever met the crazy conspiracy theorist who is convinced that a well-executed and malevolent plot lurks behind most events? These were the people whose eyes bugged-out during Y2K, who are convinced that Apollo 11 never landed on the moon, that the World Trade Center was actually blown up by the United States to [...]
This year has been full of the unexpected. The world is an unpredictable place. It was just a few weeks ago that Egypt and then Libya dominated the airwaves. Now they are distant memories with the horrific events in Japan this week. Who would have thought that an earthquake would lead to a nuclear meltdown? [...]
Retirement investors who want investment advice are faced with two basic choices: pay high fees for professional mutual fund managers to beat the market (called “active” investing) or buy low-fee funds that simply own all of the stocks in a given group (“passive” investing). If you have an actively-managed portfolio, it is important to determine [...]
It has been proven that most active investors who struggle to out-perform the market will find that over time, their machinations and efforts were all for naught. A recent study has proven that these efforts won’t help one’s happiness either. On this Thanksgiving weekend, we present a few studies that address the connection between happiness [...]
Do you like investing? Find it fun to read, study and peruse investment resources to better yourself as an investor? Have you given your children a few bucks to buy their favorite stock so they can start early, learning important financial lessons? You may be wasting your time. Does persistence, effort, practice, and increased activity over [...]
There are different types of retirement investors and ultimately, different approaches to growing your money. Some investors play the high stakes game of competing against the market itself. These investors have entered the largest poker tournament the world has to offer. And who has joined these gamblers at the table? Teams of the smartest minds, [...]
On May 6th of last week, the markets shocked the world with a never-seen-before event – a 1000-point drop in a mere sixteen short minutes. During those brief moments and the hours following, financial programs on TV and radio featured pundits whose heads were spinning while seeking to comprehend how 10% of the market’s value [...]
“Nobody knows nothing” is a statement made by screenwriter William Goldman about the movie business. He meant that even after making movies for over 100 years, no one actually knows exactly how to make a successful movie. Sometimes sure things bomb. Sometimes long shots win big. To draw a parallel, we assembled a few articles [...]
Warren Buffett is our generation’s Benjamin Franklin, a humble billionaire full of great advice, quips and invaluable insights. While he never gives direct investment advice, one can gleen some helpful hints about investing in one’s IRA Rollover account. To paraphrase Warren, most investors should “do as I say, not as I do.” The world’s greatest [...]
Have you ever been a part of one of those trusted conversations where you become privy to information that is so powerful it would disrupt the status quo? Think of the conversations that occur behind closed doors at the White House, corporate boardrooms or U.S. Central Command. We all understand that there are elements of [...]
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