Money

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, …

I’m sure everyone has heard the old truism that money can’t buy happiness. The problem with that statement is that scientific experiments have shown, again and again, that higher incomes …

It’s almost tax time again and most people who haven’t filed already are in the midst of organizing their receipts and sorting through W2s and 1099s. For far too many …

It’s not your imagination. If you feel you’ve been paying more these days and not actually getting more, there is plenty of new data out to support what your checking …

Back on the 2nd of February I encouraged our readers to stay invested in the stock market. If you listened, you had one of the biggest months in equities since …