Money

The corporate raiders of the 1980s mined America’s corporate landscape of wealth without adding any value. Today the strip mining of our corporate wealth has largely played out and the…

There’s no point in mincing words when it comes to the U.S. housing market. Your choices will inevitably be between bad, really bad, and intolerable. It’s depressing and ties up…

For a long time many of us participating as fair dealers in the U.S. economy couldn’t shake the feeling that we were playing in a rigged game. Gasoline and oil…

Many people look at successful stock market investors and imagine that they have some super-secret formula that they dreamed up to beat the market. Maybe they have a sixth sense…

The numbers don’t lie, Americans are addicted to debt. The numbers available as of July 2014 paint an alarming picture of a populace drunk on borrowing and on a collision…

If you like wild, careening roller coasters with blind curves and death drops, then you were right at home in the stock market lately. Stocks fell, then rose to dizzying…

A truism is a widely held belief that may, or may not, have any real basis in fact. Some truisms are helpful and most of them are harmless. A few…

For the past five years the stock market has been on a bull run that will go down in history as one of the easiest times to make money in…

The pace of modern life is fast and the sheer speed of it all can be stressful. Most people have enough trouble fighting the daily dragons that swoop in to…

One of the biggest obstacles to weaning people off the siren song of the debt economy and getting them to think about investing and getting on the right side of…