Ishares and ETFs: Indexed Investment Illusions How many of you remember the immortal words of P. T. Barnum? Of Yogi Berra? On Wall Street, the incubation...
Ten Common Investment Errors: Stocks, Bonds, & Management Investment mistakes happen for a multitude of reasons, including the fact that decisions are made...
For Clients Only: Concerning April This will not be a long report, and it won't touch on anything that you haven't heard several times in the past. But as you...
Statistical Investment Myopia: How The DJIA Fails the Average Investor In addition to a well thought out Investment Plan, successful Equity investing...
RELAX, A Volatile Stock Market Is Your Dearest Friend Most people never forget their first love. I'll never forget my first trading profit! But the $600...
The Stock Market Investor’s Worst Enemy Every stock market investor faces one primal enemy. An enemy so perverse, it will drive thousands of investors from...
As investors, and we all are investors these days, it is important that we understand the idiosyncrasies of the Stock Market pricing data we use to help us...
Recent Letter RE: Flat Fee Many of you have received a letter proposing a change in the way transaction fees (commissions) are charged to your investment...
As an investor, I've always wondered why Social Security is such a problem. What's so difficult about managing this particular Trust Fund, and why is it so...
Many Investment Gurus, with a straight face and a gleam in their eye, will insist that successful investing is a function of expansive research, skillful ...
Investment Perspective: Two Books that will Tweak Your Understanding and Jump Start Your Imagination If you haven't been living under a rock for the past...
We humans are as creative on the "Dark Side" of commercial activity as we are in developing beneficial new products and services. In the face of huge ...
"First thing Monday morning I'm going to march into my boss's office and demand a pay cut so that I'll be in a lower tax bracket next year." Of course that's...
Dealing With Stock Market Corrections: Ten Do's and Don'ts A correction is a beautiful thing, simply the flip side of a rally, big or small. Theoretically,...
Investment Politics 2008: What's (left) In Your Wallet? The parade of promises is marching down Main Street. For too many months to come, politicians of all...
An Investor's Eye View of the Corporate Income Tax The Investor's Eye view of politics is a simplistic, practical, "dot-connecting" approach to sorting...
Stock and Bond Trading as a Conservative Investment Strategy It's likely that either curiosity or skepticism led you to this article, and I would agree...
Fixed Income Investing...why isn't this easy? Most people (including myself) would insist that Equity Investing is the most difficult to master. After all,...
How Do You Spell Correction? During every correction, I encourage investors to avoid the destructive inertia that results from trying to determine: "How low...
Commissions = Brainwashing Spelled Backwards! Well, not really, but nowhere in the world of investing is "Brainwashing" more apparent than in investor (even...
Don't be Fooled by The DOW, or The S & P When the Media and the Snake Oil Salesmen get excited about the same thing, it's time to run for cover! Although...
The Dow, Your Portfolio, and Aliens There are two extremely good reasons why your portfolio may not be "performing" (whatever that means) either as well as...
The Investor's Creed and Your Investment Portfolio Growing up at Lake Hopatcong in Northwest Jersey, the most popular entertainment around was the rickety...
The Brainwashing of the American Investor The revised edition of "The Brainwashing of the American Investor: The Book that Wall Street does not want YOU to...
