Got to thinking more about that Wal-Mart story: Here’s a snippet from the IBT article: Incidentally, it would take the average worker around 750

Last night my wife and I drove past our local Wal-Mart store; its huge parking lot was packed. We didn’t happen to notice (we

“Forever on Thanksgiving Day The heart will find the pathway home.” Wilbur D. Nesbit The poet indeed captured the essence of this day. It’s

Those who track mutual fund investment flows tell us that, based on flows out of bond funds and into stock funds, the individual investor

This morning’s conversation with Zara was purposely short on market outlook and long on practical advice to the individual investor. Click here to view…

Does it bug you (as it does a lot of Americans) that Americans buy substantially more stuff from the Chinese than the Chinese buy

Dang! I’m running out of market stuff to write about. I’ve already told you that valuations, while no longer cheap in my view, look

The other day I took a very simple stab at debunking the age-old “the debt doesn’t matter because we owe it to ourselves” myth. Essentially:

The great rotation story goes like this: The bond market is bulging at the seams, a bubble, essentially. Trillions sit there, earning nary a

Yesterday morning, Zara and I had a good, and important, conversation about how financial pundits can do a real number on the individual investor’s