Here’s the trailer for the Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Does Gordon Gekko still think that greed is good? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
Synopsis – As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a [...]
As often as I try to encourage amateur individual investors like myself to embrace independent financial analysis and to make their own investment decisions, as a previous commenter with a vaginal problem shows, there are still those who’ll regurgitate what them deem is credible information in an attempt to convince us that someone else has [...]
It goes without saying that for many of us, much of the planning, the hard work, the saving and the sacrifice we endure during our young lives is focused towards the goal of achieving a more comfortable retirement. We work, we save, we invest – and then we hope for the best. I say “hope” [...]
There’s nothing that makes both a parent and a child more uncomfortable than having that inevitable and unavoidable talk when they reach that certain age. But there’s also nothing more important than knowing if your kids are doing it regularly.
Investing doesn’t have to be an uncomfortable topic. It’s smart to start early and do it [...]
The Vanguard Group has posted a interesting article in their Insights section on something of concern to bond market investors – the inverse relationship between bond prices and interest rates.
As excerpted from Bonds and rates: The reality behind the headlines:
Moves in interest rates are notoriously hard to predict, but that hasn’t stopped many market observers [...]
America Saves Week
February 21-28 is designated as America Saves Week, a week where financial bloggers encourage people to take financial action through saving, debt reduction, and wealth building.
The personal savings rate has risen above 4% recently, but most Americans are still not saving adequately for retirement, and most lower-income households do not have adequate emergency savings for [...]