Morgan Housel at The Motley Fool recently published a list entitled 100 Startling Facts About the Economy. It’s a fun piece, although it reads like a reporter’s crib-list of possible story … Read more →

If you haven’t read the book “The Millionaire Next Door,” put it on your list. It’s one of many self-help books about retirement investing but among the few that might … Read more →

The great thing about Google’s business model is not how they make money but how much their data generation reveals about the world. Dow 14000, for instance. For instance, if you take … Read more →

If  there’s anything the investment business loves, it’s a good marketing angle. And this is a business than can market like nobody else. Growth stocks, value stocks, contrarian funds, macro … Read more →

The investing rules of saving for retirement has many parallels to healthy eating. Mind you, not “dieting,” which too often is just temporarily eating less of the same bad foods. No, … Read more →

One of the most enduring notions people have about stocks these days seems to be that the market can’t be trusted. Partly, the media is to blame. Along with the standard … Read more →

Over the years at MarketRiders, we learned that not everyone was a do-it-yourself investor.  Many wanted us to manage their accounts using the MarketRiders method of investing. So we started … Read more →

As the playwright George Bernard Shaw put it, “Youth is wasted on the young.” An acerbic quote, and wryly funny. It points up a perspective one comes by later in … Read more →

It’s always fascinating when people attempt to forecast the future. Who will go to the Super Bowl. College hoops bracketology. If you want to waste a good hour of Internet … Read more →

A few years back, a popular TV quiz show posed this question in its title: “Are You Smarter Than a 5th-Grader?” It was a simple idea, as most successful ideas … Read more →