The study also found that when wealthy people are heavily clustered in a neighborhood, their generosity drops.
“They don’t deserve it!” is the most common complaint. And in most cases it’s true
This should not produce a hand-wringing vacillation between the two answers.
You may be a good candidate to become an angel investor if….
When I work my 9 to 5 job and earn a paycheck, I receive a paper certificate I can trade in for the real reward of my labor. But why do investors get a reward?
Retirement Planning is perhaps the single most important goal of comprehensive wealth management.
Investing a large lump sum amount into a college 529 savings plan using a special ‘5 year election’ can offer substantial tax savings.
David John Marotta was interviewed on radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show discussing Obamacare and the healthcare law’s trickle-down effect.
A recent letter from a reader expressed the claim that there is no such thing as natural rights. Could he be right?
An unprovoked attack is always wrong everywhere, but can a law professor and attorney-at-law prove the biological basis for their field?
Sweden appreciated 11.02% during the month.
No matter how near and dear to your heart, investing in a startup is risky business
NPR writer Alva Noë says privacy is unimportant, but from the very start of his argument Noë is confused about what privacy is.
Here is one way not to argue against Libertarianism.
Three part time employees equals two full time employees while avoiding $4,000 in annual fines.
A gone-fishing portfolio has a limited number of investments with a balanced asset allocation that should do well with dampened volatility.
A gone-fishing portfolio has a limited number of investments with a balanced asset allocation that should do well with dampened volatility. Its primary appeal is simplicity. As a secondary virtue, it avoids the worst mistakes of the financial services industry.
As the payroll processor at our company, how quickly do I need to deposit 401(k) contributions into employee accounts? -Sincerely, Payroll Pam
Money deducted from your paycheck for retirement typically gets deposited quickly into your 401(k) plan. But this isn’t always the case.
The new unified credit changes for estate planning in 2013 have once again changed when you should have provisions for a bypass trust.
The Affordable Care Act encourages everyone to get health care insurance by punishing those who don’t. Proponents of Obamacare justify this saying that health care is a human right. But is it?
Here is how representative ETFs from each of the six asset classes did in July 2013.
This week we have a smorgasbord of ideas for everything from tips for building an emergency fund from scratch to financial tweets to writing engaging website pages.
“Debit or Credit?” is a trick question. There is only one right answer and it’s not the one that benefits the store whose asking.
Since it is inevitable that each group of friends will represent a spectrum of financial capacity, healthy relationships require that all be prepared to manage these pressures.
There is no such thing as a sure thing, and if something sounds too good to be true, it is
Corporations go bankrupt for a wide variety of reasons, but there’s only one reason for municipalities.
Here’s a walk through of the account opening process at Vanguard.
Precious Metal Mining companies are leveraged against the movements of the underlying price of the metals themselves.
Foreign real estate was down more for the quarter because the U.S. Dollar strengthened against foreign currencies.
Energy is one important components of the category of Resource Stocks.
Chasing historical returns or a so called star manager is a poor investment strategy.
In a reversal from past trends, some European markets did better than global averages.
Those investments which go up the most when markets are rising often go down the most when markets are falling.
Money is not the source of the corruption in Congress.
It is prudent not to have your assets all subject to a single country’s economic failure or success.
Just because the dollar strengthens for a quarter does not mean you should abandon this strategy.
Many investors don’t understand why a bond, which pays a fixed rate of interest and then at the end of the term pays a fixed amount of principle would have its price fluctuate.
My article, What Charles Dickens Can Teach Us About Personal Finance was recently featured on Yahoo Finance. Another title I considered for this article was The Micawber Principle: The Cornerstone of Financial Security.
The complete guide to saving money while washing your clothes. What temperature should the water be? What cycle should I use? What detergent should I use?
We need to protect more of our natural rights by enumerating them.
Sometimes what stops someone from following advice is just not knowing where to begin or how easy it is. Many personal financial advisors have minimums, so where do you start if you only have a small amount of money to invest?
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Rather than deciding between active or passive investing, the debate now rages about what type of index fund is best.
Thanks to the public record, pieces of otherwise random information can be used to precisely identify an individual. Find out what some of the most common data leaks are in your life.
Some of the monthly commentary on resource stock returns.
Some of the monthly commentary on the returns of global investments.
Some of the monthly commentary on the returns of the emerging markets.
Monthly commentary on the countries ranked high in economic freedom.
Some of the monthly commentary on the returns of Northern Europe compared with the EAFE Index.