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It seems perfectly rational: Surely the candidate you back will be good for markets—and vice versa. Yet it turns out basing investing decisions on politics is trouncing your bottom line.

I got into a discussion with another person in an online forum about the housing market and he accused me of trying to “time the market.” It’s hard to figure…

The latest GDP data showed the U.S. economy growing at an anemic one-point-two percent as strong retail sales were largely canceled out by a reduction in business investment. Most disturbingly…

2016 came in like a bear; an alien bear from outer space with huge teeth and claws that destroyed everything in its path for the first 60 days of the…

I never believed in vampires, the mythical creatures that feast on human blood and don’t ever die. Yet financial myths, those vile creatures that feed upon the cash that is…

It comes as a sudden realization a week before payday and, sometimes, a text or email from the bank or the hideous embarrassment of having your debit card declined in…

If making money was easy, everyone would be rich. The fact that the majority of people in the United States are poor tells you something about investing. It also tells…

The view of housing most people carry around with them has its roots in the 1950s. In those days housing was frequently collocated with jobs and factories that no longer…

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…

Robert Rhinehart was an electrical engineer who was not satisfied with the state of our food. Every new day meant a new effort to find and prepare nutritious meals. When…