News & Events

Do you know what your broker is charging you? The North American Securities Association recently published a survey of 34 big and regional brokerage...

Will There Be A Double-Dip?

In a market driven by fear and greed, generalizations are common. With stocks rising and falling so quickly, it’s easy to panic and think a double...

Energy, Money, and the Markets

Turn off the lights! They’re costing you money. The soft white, incandescent bulbs burning away on your desk are eating away at your pocket book. It...

Efficiency

One of my goals on this blog and my radio show, About Money, is to help you be informed about what’s happening in the market. I want you to make...

Education and Entrepreneurs

How important is education? I remember when if you didn’t finish high school you became a ditch digger. Manual labor was a viable career path. Now,...

The Ebola Virus and the...

WARNING – Sensitive Material. Weak stomachs beware. Two of the scariest books I’ve ever read were The Hot Zone by Richard Preston and Too Big To...

401ks

Diversification or DeWORSification

I believe one of the main reasons money managers underperform the market is diversification. Robert Haywood from the University of Denver showed that...

Disruption and the Fast Change...

At the time of World War II the military employed a room full of people to calculate how to aim the big artillery guns. They had to calculate given...

Crisis Breeds Disruptive Technology

China’s “Barefoot Doctors” Inspire Healthcare Reform Parallels are often drawn between the Great Recession and the Great Depression. While there...

Costly Healthcare

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Or does it? There are 32 nations with a greater life expectancy and 37 countries with a lower infant mortality...