From the category archives:
November is usually a good month for stocks. Free from the seasonal worries about risky September and October markets, November often represents a return to a rallying environment in stocks generally and in certain sectors especially.
This year being a mid-term election year in the U.S. also bodes well for stock markets for the rest of 2010 and into [...]
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It’s bad enough to initially depend on just one source of income, but it’s even worse to not invest it or diversify it such that you protect it over time. In other words, there is more than one way to diversify your income.
(1) You can diversify your sources of income so that you have, say, [...]
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I’ve been an individual stock investor for almost a decade now (starting out very small, while still an undergrad), but it’s taken me some time to revise my methods and learn what’s most important in terms of record keeping. When I first started out, all I cared about was the excitement of the purchase itself [...]
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Is there a bubble in gold? Liz Weston thinks so. And if you talk to Matt at Steadfast Finances, he’ll be quick to agree.
I’d concede there’s definitely a boom or “bandwagon” effect happening with money flowing into gold right now, but I’m not convinced it can be called a bubble in the same way that [...]
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Welcome to 2009 part two. Now’s a good time to look back over the first half of 2009 and see how far we’ve come – economically, fiscally, personally. In the past I’ve done portfolio checkups just once a year, but this year I’m starting mid-year checkups as well. I check in regularly throughout the year, [...]
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China was the first to open the floor for discussion on the continued viability of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency a couple of months ago. With good reason, since they are now the largest foreign holder of US debt instruments (that’s the paper money the Fed prints out of thin air). Just [...]
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