Issues relating to beginner stock investing are what matter most. There’s an 80/20 rule that applies in learning how to invest successfully — 20 percent of what there […]
Intimidation of VII Advocates
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Internet Harassment by “Defenders” of the Conventional Retirement Studies
Set forth below is the text of an e-mail that I sent on August 12, 2008, to my congressman offering an overview of the abusive tactics used to […]
Stock Drunk
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Why Is Today’s Stock Investing Advice So Poor?
Much of today’s stock investing advice can fairly be described as less than top-rate stuff. Stocks are good, we are told. After “buy” comes “hold,” they say. Don’t […]
Investing for Humans
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It Takes More Than Intelligence to Be an Intelligent Investor
It takes more than just the thing we usually refer to as “intelligence” to become a truly intelligent investor. The successful investor combines the kind of intelligence measured […]
Buy-and-Hold Is Dead
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Pros and Cons of Index Investing
Set forth below are five reasons why I like index investing and five reasons why I don’t (at least not as it is generally practiced today). The first […]
Podcasts
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Personal Finance Podcasts — Page Nine
Podcast #65 (77 minutes) — February 16, 2009 — The Stock Market — A Respectable Ponzi Scheme To download to your computer, right click and choose “Save Link […]
The New Buy-and-Hold
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Indexing Without the Emotional Baggage
Indexing is here to stay. The world of investing has changed in recent decades. It used to be that most people who invested in stocks were people with […]
Podcasts
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Personal Finance Podcasts — Page Fourteen
Podcast #105 (77 minutes) — May 20, 2009 — You Can Get Rich Slow While Also Getting Rich Quick To download to your computer, right click and choose […]
The New Buy-and-Hold
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Amazing IBonds Tricks — What IBonds Can Do That Stocks Cannot
Amazing ibonds trick #1 — Owners of ibonds are better positioned to write realistic financial plans that investors who invest only in stocks. Stock prices often move far […]
The New Buy-and-Hold
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Ibonds Are New and Improved Cash
The creation of ibonds as a new investment class makes it exciting once again to hold cash. Ask the typical middle-class investor to name an exciting asset class, […]