We should always be striving to get the best deal out of our money that we can. Sometimes this involves taking on more risk, but paying off debt is always risk-free. For whatever reasons, many of us approach our savings and our debts separately, and often too separately. There are some situations where we may […]
Elliot Wave theory is predicting that the stock market may be in for a pretty big tumble soon. There are several prominent price influencers that also need to be accounted for. Elliott Wave theory is a technique used to predict future prices of securities by applying correlations of up and down patterns to current conditions. […]
President Trump may have helped stock markets overall, and he has been a fairly market friendly president, but his influence here is nowhere near close to what he proclaims. Donald Trump has never been known for his modesty, not when in business, and certainly not as president of the United States. While stock markets have […]
Vanguard started out in 1975 with a novel idea of managing mutual funds. This idea has really caught on over the years and has propelled Vanguard to the top of the heap. The world of mutual funds has historically been a battle between those who can build the best portfolios and outperform the broader market […]
As the reports continue to come in during this earnings season, some of them speak louder than others. This is certainly the case with Walmart’s call scheduled for Tuesday. With the Fed laying off on contracting economic growth, and optimism about getting the U.S. and China trade dispute resolved, investors remain focused on the results […]
$22 Trillion of debt is a huge amount, almost beyond comprehension, but when you add in $70 trillion more, the number gets a lot bigger. It’s also about to grow much bigger. There is already lots of concern about the exploding U.S. national debt, but as it turns out, this is more like the part […]
There’s a lot more to retirement than just saving enough money to pay for it. When we’re almost there, it is time to really start planning for this life changing event. Retiring should be a time for celebration, where we reach the pinnacle of our working years and get ready to relax and enjoy the […]
Since the truce was reached on the government shutdown, the hope has been that we’d get this resolved by the deadline. We did, but a state of emergency came with it. If anyone still doubted President Donald Trump’s resolve to build his wall along the Mexican border, his actions today should serve to shed more […]
It’s no secret that we are borrowing more and more each year, although the data does tell us that this is increasing faster than our incomes. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Just because people’s income goes up doesn’t mean that they are better off financially. We know that there is one critical factor […]
Retail sales are seen generally as a good measure of economic prosperity at home. When we see a report that is the worst since 2009, that does concern some people. Stock markets have been cruising along rather nicely over the past few days, buoyed by a more optimistic outlook on the prospects of the trade […]