The market gives and market takes away, overall 2016 has been okay but not spectacular. It’s worked out for me because I shifted a bunch of money into an S&P…
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    Sometimes there’s no way to put a happy spin on the economic news and this is one of those times. The Royal Bank of Scotland issued this simple assessment of… 
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    The stock market this week is not for the faint of heart. Markets shed nearly $1.8 trillion in wealth over the span of three trading days. You have to go… 
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    It’s been a good run for the stock market, staging one of the greatest comebacks in market history and becoming the third longest bull market since 1900. Unfortunately the other… 
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    The situation in Greece is nothing short of financial chaos. Shares on Europe’s stock market shed a full 1% of their value and, here in the U.S., the Dow dropped… 
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    Even the smartest people among us sometimes fall for myths and fables. Sometimes those myths come in the form of cute sayings that are handed down from generation to generation,… 
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    It would be pretty easy to write the script for a hedge fund manager or brokerage analyst going on one of the cable business shows. First, point to one of… 
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    Truisms are stories we tell one another so often that we start to believe they’re true, even though they don’t stand up to even the most elementary testing. By way… 
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    When it comes to investing, your worst enemy may be the person in the mirror. It’s a hard truth that almost everyone who invests money has to face at one…