There were only a handful of insightful individual investors like myself able to accurately predict this past stock market crash. Do you ever wonder why? Then financial buffs, mark your calendars. Starting on April 27, 2010 the PBS television show, NOVA, will present a program about behavioral economics entitled, “Mind Over Money“. In the aftermath [...]
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How’s Your Mental Wealth?
Change your thoughts about money into actions and begin your quest for financial independence. Thinking about it doesn’t make it happen. Break down those mental barriers that prevent us from achieving financial health. While that may be easier said than done. According to Dr. Ted Klontz, it’s all just a matter of Mind Over Money. [...]
NBR: Saving Versus Spending
According to Nightly Business Report anchor Susie Gharib – “American workers say they’re saving less for retirement than they did last year and they blamed it mainly on the economy. But that doesn’t explain why saving for the future is hard for many Americans even in good times.” Seeking a reason for our savings shortcomings, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]