Category: personal finance

Hopefully, Charles Dickens will forgive my use above of his famous quote from A Tale of Two Cities, although written in 1859 it seems to […]

The month of July 2020 will clearly be one to look back on in financial history as an important month. After an avalanche of negative […]

I remember staring at my screen on March 16, 2026. The S&P 500 had just dropped 12% in a single day. My 401(k) lost more […]

You’ve heard the phrase “financial markets are buoyed by a tsunami of liquidity” on every financial news channel for the last five years. It sounds […]

The headline numbers look fantastic. The unemployment rate sits at 3.7% as of early 2026. That is historically low. Job openings still outnumber unemployed workers […]

You watch the news. You see the flashing red and green numbers. You hear about some guy who turned $5,000 into $50,000 in a week […]

We are closing in on the end of one of the best investment years of the decade. We are now enjoying one of the best […]

You hear the pitch sometimes: “If the government can run the DMV, why can’t it run your health plan?” It sounds neat. Streamlined. One big […]

Only about 70 students out of more than 50,000 applicants receive the Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholarship each year — a full-tuition award worth roughly $65,500 annually. […]

You made a dumb money move. Maybe you bought a car you couldn’t afford. Maybe you invested in a friend’s “can’t miss” crypto project. Maybe […]