Yearly Archives: 2024

Your Survival Guy Talking Money with His Daughter

Your Survival Guy was talking about money with his daughter over the holidays. And it wasn’t exactly the conversation I was expecting to have. You...

Hundreds of Flights Grounded after Door Blows Off mid Flight

Alison Sider, Micah Maidenberg, and Nancy Keates of The Wall Street Journal are telling their readers that a key clue in the Alaska Airlines...

Steady Gains for Job Market To Cap Off Year

Amara Omeokwe and Chip Cutter of The Wall Street Journal are reporting that unemployment held at 3.7% last month and hiring was revised lower...

Your Investing Success in 2024 May Rely on This

Your success as an investor has much to do with your temperament. It’s more art than science. That’s not coming from me. That’s from...

Are Costco’s Gold Bars a Good Deal?

In The Wall Street Journal, Debbie Carlson examines the value of the popular gold bars for sale from Cotsco. She writes: While gold dealers might...

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The Trouble with Balanced Mutual Funds and ETFs

In the past, when I thought about balanced mutual...

Retail Sales Growth Worrisome

Growth in sales at retail chain stores has fallen...

December RAGE Gauge: Boom! Small Business Outlook Jumps

Wow, isn’t it amazing what a difference one month...

Risk and Reward: An Efficient Frontier

Originally posted July 26, 2018. The Efficient Frontier, created by...

What We’re Reading 10-4-13

Albert Edwards accuses Fed of inequality cover up, Katrina...

Be Great at One Thing and…

You may know Mark Knopfler, the “Sultan of Swing,”...

Do Presidential Elections Hurt or Help Consumer Confidence?

From the end of July, through the end of...

Private Equity’s Secret Sauce May Surprise You

In recent years pension funds have paid more and...

COVID-19 Retail Survivors Could Benefit from Less Competition

COVID-19 shutdowns have strangled many retailers to death. The...

Buying a Car? Don’t Expect a Discount

Negotiating with car dealers is hard enough, after two...