Monthly Archives: February, 2015

How Much can you Lose in the Stock Market?

If your portfolio isn't properly diversified, the answer is a lot, but even if you craft a diversified equity portfolio your losses can be...

Greek Drama: The Final Act?

Greece is back on the front pages of the financial press. Why is a country whose GDP is a rounding error in the $75...

40 Years is a Helluva Long-time

Cashing in on the Fed’s zero percent interest rates while the going is still good, Microsoft is issuing $10.75 billion in bonds—an increase from...

The Monday Melee: Greenspan, Beer and Budgets

Greenspan: Political Crisis Coming What We're Reading: What Democrats and the CBO Don’t Get (The Wall Street Journal) The one percent earn the same share of income...

What are They Waiting For?

The January jobs numbers were released this morning. The monthly gain in payroll employment topped expectations by a modest amount, but there were 147,000...

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Walking on the Moon with Your Survival Guy

OK, Your Survival Guy wasn’t in sunny Key West...

US Moves to Cut Foreign Uranium Dependence With $2.7B Plan

The US Department of Energy announced a $2.7 billion...

What a Difference a Day Makes

What a difference a day makes. As I wrote...

AI’s Thirst for Water – One Bottle of Water Per Email

Pranshu Verma and Shelly Tan of The Washington Post...

Loose Wire on Containership Led to Fatal Key Bridge Collapse

The NTSB reported that a single loose wire on...

Oil, Isolation, and Anxiety: Why Cuba’s Regime Looks More Vulnerable Than Ever

Cuban-Americans in Miami, long accustomed to toasting a distant...

Vanguard Wellesley (VWINX) vs. Wellington (VWELX): Which Fund is Best?

The Vanguard Wellesley (VWINX) and Wellington (VWELX) funds are both...

Don’t Get Locked Out at the Worst of Times

The worst possible time in your life could be...

$1 Trillion in California Homes Misclassified as Low Wildfire Risk, AI Warns

A ZestyAI analysis of 11.8 million California homes shows...

Your Survival Guy’s Weather and Ski Outlook? Variable

Happy New Year. Your Survival Guy’s New Year's weather...