You might hear your friends and relatives who actively trade stocks and mutual funds talk about the “VIX.” It sounds like a ticker for a stock or fund, but it’s … Read more →

Learning to ride a bike when you are young comes with some risk at first. You could fall and get hurt, ride into a tree or worse. Yet once you … Read more →

Chances are, you hear this a lot on the evening news or online at any major finance website: The “Fed” did this or that, so stocks moved this way or … Read more →

Many investors hear the word “stock” and they think “risky.” Then, when they hear “bond” they think “safe.” While it’s broadly true that stocks are more volatile than bonds — … Read more →

Most people, when they want to understand how the economy is doing, look at their own bank accounts. Some might add to that a glance at their 401(k) balance, or … Read more →

The mainstream media often reports on “the jobless rate” or “unemployment numbers,” information which can seem to impart something important and vital. The latest number is from the Bureau of … Read more →

Read anything in the news about the Federal Reserve these says and you might run into the term “quantitative easing.” Besides being hard to spell, the whole concept is a … Read more →

The iconic billionaire investor Warren Buffett once used the idea of shopping for hamburger meat — the most ordinary of daily expenditures — to explain how to buy stocks. In … Read more →

The term revenue often is misunderstood by investors. Revenue is money coming into a company. Yet even high-revenue companies can be poor investments. Think of revenue like your paycheck every … Read more →

There’s an old saying, “May you live in interesting times.” Some might find that a positive sentiment, but it’s easy to see it as a curse. The drumbeat of headlines … Read more →