One of the most predictable trends in life is how we tend to be less interested in new things as we age. Music is fascinating to the young, while older fans dwell … Read more →

Have you ever followed your gut feeling on stocks? Did you come to regret it? Retire on the gains from it? Maybe something in-between? Leaving aside for a moment the enormous … Read more →

The president of Fidelity Investments, a man you almost certainly have never heard of, made some news this week with the unstartling argument that Americans should save more. Much more. The startling … Read more →

Do you sabotage your savings? “Save more” is a bit like telling people to lose weight. It’s obvious advice, usually welcomed with nodding and guilty smiles. You know it. I … Read more →

One of the most amusing aspects of the doomsday investing and the financial publishing business is how completely and totally sure the “doomer” prognosticators are, all the time, without fail. It … Read more →

Is there a market correction looming? If that’s the story you want to hear, market correction calls are not hard to find. There are voices all over, from the biggest … Read more →

If you talk to engineers or scientists, you’ll eventually hear about “signal-to-noise ratio.” It’s an interesting concept, one with implications for 401(k) investors who believe that they can pick stocks amid … Read more →

Fans of the long-running public radio show A Prairie Home Companion know its central monologue, delivered by the show’s host and main writer, Garrison Keillor. It’s a segment of Keillor simply talking, … Read more →

Like a lot of folks, I love to feel well informed. And the Internet has made it possible to be at least moderately well-informed about nearly anything. Put another way, … Read more →

One of the amusing aspects of traveling in other countries and cultures is getting some perspective on your own. Did you know that Americans are always in a hurry? Always rushing … Read more →