Money

One of the hard facts that becomes immediately apparent when you look at financial surveys is that most people are poor. In a candid look at the average American’s net …

It would be pretty easy to write the script for a hedge fund manager or brokerage analyst going on one of the cable business shows. First, point to one of …

Normally you don’t have to tell people they’re living on the edge of financial disaster; most already know and are trying desperately not to think about it. The reason those …

Being in the real estate industry in 2005 made it easy to see the housing crash coming. What drove it home for me was how many times respectable agents would …

One thing you can count right around this time of year is a series of gloomy economic forecasts. There’s a reason one of the stock market’s favorite witticisms is “sell …

Sometimes it’s hard to see what all the fuss over Greece is about. It’s a country with a landmass only slightly larger than Colorado and its main industries are tourism, …

Change is inevitable in life and in markets but that doesn’t mean you’re always going to like the new direction. For as long as most of us can remember U.S. …

Truisms are stories we tell one another so often that we start to believe they’re true, even though they don’t stand up to even the most elementary testing. By way …

It’s a given that no one wants to think of themselves as average. This desire to be better than average manifests itself in strange ways. One area it shows up …

It’s interesting to watch the investment world because, over time, you start to notice that it has fashion trends, just like the clothing industry. Hemlines go up, hemlines go down, …