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I’m a sucker for a good road trip. Credit my parents, who took my brother and I on a pair of “Griswold Family Vacations” as children — two, multi-week car trips to various national parks and other...
Fatal decision made in Washington! Will it crash the market? Will it doom the economy? A fatal decision made in Washington is now creating a clear and present danger for the world economy...
When the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that our economy created 312,000 new jobs in December, the Dow Jones Industrial Average leapfrogged by 746 points, or 3.3%. Those 312,000 new jobs...
Stocks have staged one heck of a rally off their Christmastime lows. The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged roughly 2,000 points from its intraday low on Dec. 26 through earlier this week, while...
"It's the start of a brand-new year, which means both new opportunities ... and new risks ... for investors. To help you make the most of the former, I submitted two of my best investment ideas to...
If you think the stock market follows the economy, you could sooner or later find yourself in deep doodoo. It’s actually the reverse: Stocks fall first. Then recessions don’t usually begin until...
Grandparents are notorious for spoiling their grandchildren. Now that I am a grandfather, I'd like to give my one grandchild, a beautiful granddaughter, something more meaningful than a Barbie...
The U.S. markets will kick off their first day of 2019 trading in just a little over an hour. And let’s face it, neither the month of December nor the past year itself were what many bulls were...
Millions of investors are making a fatal mistake, and I hope you’re not among them. They know the Federal Reserve slashed its official interest rate down to the lowest level in history and kept...
If you're a longtime reader, you know that I spend most of the year in Asia. I have lived in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, and the Philippines. Asia is wonderful, but I have to confess:...