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Boomer Retirement Crisis: How To Avoid It

The approaching retirement wave can be disastrous, with many retiring boomers expressing distress over being unprepared financially. According to a new survey, many boomers find themselves in a retirement crisis as they struggle to compete with the...

Ignore the Hype and Protect Your Portfolio

Billionaire Larry Fink recently made headlines when he declared that he was more optimistic than ever about the stock market. He says investors should be 100% in equities presently if they can handle it. That’s crazy talk. Stocks don’t even make the...

EVs and Lessons in Demand

How many times have you heard a revolutionary industry, product, or market was a “sure thing” or a “can’t miss?” Once the darling of Wall Street, electric vehicles and the cottage industries that sprung up around them are no longer a sure...

Investing Goals for 2024

What is your investing ethos?  What are the guiding beliefs or principles behind your investments or your approach to money? What motivates you when you invest? Do you have an investing ethos, or do you even put much thought into your investments or...

New Investment Goals for 2024

Change… The past few years have seen some major developments across the globe that have reshaped our world and touched almost every part of our lives. You can almost mark the date when things started to change drastically across the globe. January...

The Simplicity of Investing Differently

The stock market has been on a roller coaster ride recently, with everything from COVID to wars to inflation and high interest rates all contributing to stock market volatility. The stock market is consistently inconsistent, but the past few years...

How Opinions Affect Your Wealth

U.S. Navy test pilot Alan Shepard became the first American in space on May 5, 1961, when he piloted the Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 on a 490-kilometer (300-mile) 15-minute suborbital flight. I imagine that during the selection process, Alan...

Professional Investors Cannot Get It Right

Venture capital (VC) funds and the venture capitalists who run them are professional investors (in the business of funding startups) but a more appropriate job title might be unicorn hunters.  That’s because armed with client money, VCs take a...

Tangible vs. Mythical Investments

Investors are constantly chasing that next mythical investment – the one that’s finally going to pay off and make them rich.  In the case of FTX, the failed crypto currency exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried when he was 27, it was a case of...