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 [...]
I’m a big fan of the Roth IRA. I think it’s one of the best retirement savings tools available to the individual investor, and I always try to take advantage of it when I can. But, there were times when I couldn’t contribute.
Back in May of 2006 there was a pretty significant change to the [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve written a weekly wrap or actually discussed what I’ve been doing with my portfolio, so I thought it was time to let anyone who cares know what I’ve been doing (or not been doing), and what’s been going through my mind lately.
As we all know, this week ends the [...]
Muhammad Yunus banks on America, trying to establish a “trickle-up” effect – a 2010 Sundance Film Festival premier documentary.
Documentary Spotlight:
What prevents poor people from getting ahead? Banks refuse to give credit without collateral. Where commercial banks see insolvency, Nobel Prize–winning economist Muhammad Yunus sees opportunity.
His groundbreaking Grameen Bank was built on the radical notion that [...]
Plenty of blame for The Great Recession has been deservedly heaped upon the bankers for creating this whole financial crisis, and for almost causing the collapse of our whole economic system.
But, no one should be surprised about their behavior. As this video shows, it seems as though bankers have had contempt for the consumer [...]
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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 [...]