Category Archives: Commentary

Is It Safe Yet?

To many investment bankers working on Wall Street, information means everything, while sentiment and uncertainty are to be avoided at all costs. These people are serious about wanting absolute answers before deciding whether it’s safe to move their money out of cash and into equities.
To support my point, here’s recently uncovered video of a [...]

You Don’t Need Eyes To See

I recently got an email from a reader wanting to know how I’ve been able to accurately assess market and economic conditions so consistently over the past few years, even though I’m not an investment, economic, or any other type of financial professional.
I thought it best if I answered that question here, for everyone [...]

Recession Affecting Your Bling?

The Great Recession has affected every sector of the economy, even the one’s we haven’t really thought about. Just ask The Daily Show.

The State Of Arizona’s Economy

I’m about a month behind in finding this, but here’s an Arizona Illustrated interview of University of Arizona economists Marshall J. Vest, Director Economic and Business Research Center, and Professor Gerald Swanson, Eller College of Management.
These two leading economic advisers give their assessment of the State of Arizona’s economy and the budget crisis.

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 [...]

What’s On The Horizon?

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 [...]