Monthly Archives: September, 2016

Is Your Wealth Manager Held to this Higher Standard?

If you choose to work with an investment advisor, wealth manager, financial planner, stock broker, retirement specialist, you name it, there really is only...

The Longest S&P Earnings Decline since 2008

The Wall Street Journal correctly reports that investors continue to reach for yield despite crumbling earnings. The third quarter was supposed to be when earnings...

Merger Activity in Pipeline Shares Heats Up

The last big takeover in the pipeline industry (only announced a couple of weeks ago) was Enbridge Energy buying Spectra energy. The acquisition created...

Solid Advice From E.J. Smith in 2009, Even Better Today!

In 2009 E.J. Smith wrote: In 2008 alone $108 billion flowed into the top three custodians for investment advisers while the big-four Wall Street brokerages...

Consumer Confidence Hits 9 Year High in Latest Release

American consumer confidence hit a nine-year high today, the highest reading since the Great Recession.

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Big Tech and Utilities Look for New Ways to Power Data Centers

Big tech companies have proposed new power-rate terms in...

Your Survival Guy in Paris: The Greatest Cafés

Your Survival Guy and Gal went for a late...

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

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

The Most Beautiful Trips I Took Were Through…

Growing up, Your Survival Guy’s mom would always talk...

U.K. Shipbroker Sold Nine Vessels into Russia’s Shadow Fleet

Tom Wilson of the Financial Times reports that Moscow...

JD Vance Wins Debate Over Weak Harris Administration

JD Vance clearly won last night's debate. It wasn’t...

The Power of a Compound Interest Table

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

Are You Ready to Calculate Your Income Potential?

You read here about how hard it can be...

What the Fed Rate Cut Means to You Part: VI

Now that the Fed has begun its rate cut...

Paris, China, the Middle Class and the Luxury Olympics

In a few days, the 2024 Summer Olympics will...