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... endeavor. Indeed, people will spend decades pursuing their financial goals. But being an investor can be complicated, challenging, frustrating, and sometimes frightening. This is exactly why, as David ...
Perspective on Today's Market Events
... whopper—the Great Recession drop that caused U.S. stocks to drop more than 50%--so most people today probably think corrections are catastrophic. They aren't. More typically, they last anywhere from 20 ...
Perspective on Today's Market Events
... whopper—the Great Recession drop that caused U.S. stocks to drop more than 50%--so most people today probably think corrections are catastrophic. They aren't. More typically, they last anywhere from 20 ...
To Bit or Not to Bit: What Should Investors Make of Bitcoin Mania?
... are in circulation.(2) Transactions are recorded on a public ledger called blockchain.
People can earn bitcoins in several ways, including buying them using traditional fiat currencies(3) or by "mining" ...
To Bit or Not to Bit: What Should Investors Make of Bitcoin Mania?
... are in circulation.(2) Transactions are recorded on a public ledger called blockchain.
People can earn bitcoins in several ways, including buying them using traditional fiat currencies(3) or by "mining" ...
Ancient Adult Beverages
People have been drinking alcoholic beverages for a very long time. Recently, a team of researchers found evidence of large-scale wine making in 6,000 BC—in clay vats big enough to hold 400 bottles of ...
Savings Rates Decline
... again, and may be about to hit record lows. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis tracks the U.S. personal savings rate, going back to the late 1950s, when when people were setting aside a thrifty 11% ...
Savings Rates Decline
... again, and may be about to hit record lows. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis tracks the U.S. personal savings rate, going back to the late 1950s, when when people were setting aside a thrifty 11% ...
Health and Financial Wellness
... age 100.
The default assumption has been that people will live to the age on a standard life expectancy calculator—which would say, for instance, that a person age 49 has a 50% chance of living past ...
How to Respond to a Data Breach
You may have read that hackers broke into the Equifax database and stole personal information tied to 143 million people. The hackers accessed people's names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses ...
Lessons For The Next Crisis
... transparent investment approach can help people be better prepared to face uncertainty and may improve their ability to stick with their plan and ultimately capture the long-term returns of capital markets. ...
Lessons for the Next Crisis
... transparent investment approach can help people be better prepared to face uncertainty and may improve their ability to stick with their plan and ultimately capture the long-term returns of capital markets. ...
Banking Retreat
... of 2017, a net of 869 brick-and-mortar bank branches shut their doors.
Community organizations have noted that much of the cutback has occurred in areas where less-wealthy people live, and in rural areas ...
Measuring the Market
... recently: the historically high, and still-rising U.S. stock market valuations. People have been willing to pay more, and more, and more for a dollar of corporate earnings. What does that mean about future ...
Measuring the Market
... recently: the historically high, and still-rising U.S. stock market valuations. People have been willing to pay more, and more, and more for a dollar of corporate earnings. What does that mean about future ...
Who's On Your Side?
... salespeople trying to effect a sale. The courts refused to block the rule.
It gets worse. Even though brokers are held to a sales standard—they are required to "know their customer" and to make investment ...
Who's On Your Side?
... salespeople trying to effect a sale. The courts refused to block the rule.
It gets worse. Even though brokers are held to a sales standard—they are required to "know their customer" and to make investment ...
Where to Find Happy People
The World Happiness Report is out, and a group of independent experts have now compiled surveys of people in 156 countries, asking them to evaluate their lives on a scale of 1-10. They then looked at some ...
Where to Find Happy People
The World Happiness Report is out, and a group of independent experts have now compiled surveys of people in 156 countries, asking them to evaluate their lives on a scale of 1-10. They then looked at some ...
What a Market Top Looks Like
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Until now, with what Wall Street has been calling The Trump Trade. The trade means that people everywhere are investing in anticipation of lower corporate taxes and fewer regulations.
An excellent ...