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Investing Guesswork, Here’s What To Do About It
If you ask a a high school student today what they want to do for a living, you’ll probably get a shrug and a smile. And that’s okay. Career planning … Read more

Contrarian Investing Can Be Simple
One word you sometimes hear people use is “contrarian” investing. There’s something very appealing about it, the allure of insider information and being right when others are wrong. It’s also a … Read more

Cash Is Not An Investment, Nor Is Your Home
An amazing number of Americans — 54 million — think of real estate and cash as their top two choices for long-term investments, that is, for longer than 10 years. The … Read more

Investing Basics: Diversification For Dummies
Surely you remember the “Dummies” series of self-help books. They had bright yellow-and-black covers and offered to explain complex ideas in simple terms. “A reference for the rest of us!” … Read more

Why Investment Failures Are So Important
A Princeton professor has made waves online by publishing his own resume of failures — grants he did not get, schools that turned him down. He’s not the first academic … Read more

Investing Basics: What Is Inflation?
Inflation, a good thing or a bad thing? The answer, strangely enough, is “both” and how you react to inflation can deeply affect your retirement investment planning. First of all, … Read more

Should You Worry About Higher Interest Rates?
Everyone seems to know that interest rates will move higher at some point. But nobody seems to know when. The first argument — that interest rates will go up — is … Read more

Did Jim Cramer Really Goof Up? Or Not?
A story popular on the Internet this week tries to make the case that the CNBC host Jim Cramer gave out terrible advice when he picked 49 stocks about six … Read more

Investing Basics: What Is Diversification?
You know the old proverb: “Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket.” Nobody ever asks about the efficiency of multiple baskets for egg carrying, but there’s a reason … Read more

Why Should I Invest In A Portfolio?
You hear a lot of obscure terms in the investing business, too many of them math-related for sure. But one key idea that far too many gloss over is “portfolio.” It … Read more