Monthly Archives: July, 2011

Are You Financially Prepared for Retirement?

I just finished wading through the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) 2011 Retirement Confidence Survey (RCS). My findings are problematic. The EBRI is a...

What we’re Reading 7-14-11

How Much of the Decline in Unemployment is Due to the Exhaustion of Unemployment Benefits? Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago A Home Is a Lousy...

Ron Paul : Why do central banks hold Gold? Bernanke : Tradition

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Stocks Get Bernanke Bounce

In his twice-a-year economic report before Congress Wednesday, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke’s comments helped stocks rally during the morning session, with the Dow...

Gold Surges to Record High

Gold is up more than 6.5% since the first of the month. The precious metal is rallying on fears that the euro-area financial crisis...

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Get Your Lazy Cash Working

As CDs come due, investors aren’t seeing CD yields...

The Power of a Compound Interest Table

Compound interest was described as the greatest mathematical discovery...

The Real Action of Compounding

As Your Survival Guy, my job is to share...

What the Chinese Are Learning from Russian Sanctions

Georgi Kantchev and Lingling Wei of The Wall Street...

China’s Biggest EV Maker Has a Side Hustle

Yang Jie of The Wall Street Journal tells his...

Is China Surpassing the West in the Arab World?

Edward White, Cheng Leng, Ahmed Al Omran, and Alex...

China’s Gold Discovery Could Be the Largest Ever

Tim Newcomb of Popular Mechanics reports that $83 billion...

Global NatGas Market Could Experience Tighter Supply-Demand

The US Energy Information Administration reports that the global...

According to Him, This Is When Investing Becomes Fun

Let’s revisit one of my all-time favorite pieces from...

“I’m Not Going to Invest Until After the Holidays”

Inertia. It’s a mighty foe. You can beat it...