Should You Hire a Psychic to Manage Your Portfolio?
Do self-proclaimed experts really have secret insights into the workings of the market? Or is their guess really as good as yours?
27Jan
26Jan
Sifting Through the Wreckage of January’s Stock Market
January's stock market saw trillions of dollars in equities vaporized. As bad as that was for your 401(k), the trajectory it marks out for the rest of 2016 is worse.
26Jan
Free-falling Oil Prices Are Slippery Slope for Global Economy
We'd be crazy not to enjoy low gas prices and big savings on home heating oil this winter. But what's the real cost to our economy, our portfolios and our future?
25Jan
Naming Names and Dumping Stocks
Can good stocks be bad bets for individual investors? Once again, the big players in the market are making it tough for the rest of us - now one expert lays it all out.
22Jan
First a Crash, Now Worse Than Useless Advice?
Is a New York Times columnist right that when markets are shattering around us we either need to get used to it or get out? Is that the only way of investing?
22Jan
Stock Market Dips Hollowing Out Public Retirement Funds
One of the enviable perks of government work used to be the lush pension. But cresting boomer retirements and market downturns are dealing body blows to needed funds.
21Jan
The R Word
Though experts have said for months a new worldwide recession is likely, stock market Pied Pipers still want us to walk down the path to ruin one more time.
21Jan
Stocks Dive as You Pay for Others’ Mistakes
As the stock market plunges once again, small investors are at the mercy of forces far out of their control from greedy CEOs to Saudi Arabia to China.
20Jan
Shaken Investors Flock to Gold – But the Wrong Kind
As the Dow plunges yet again panic-stricken investors are running in the first door they see marked "gold." Too bad it's a door that leads right back to paper.
20Jan
Can You Still Build Wealth in the Faltering Global Economy?
With UN predictions of skyrocketing unemployment and the IMF forecasting little to no economic growth globally and in the U.S., is a secure retirement off the table?