The interesting thing about index funds, which hardly anybody ever talks about, is that when a stock or a sector posts dramatic gains, it can become an outsi...

Many investors and financial consumers remember the 2008-9 recession with some degree of horror, as a time we’re not (to put it mildly) anxious to repeat. I...

Most people no longer have to worry too much about the federal estate tax, since (currently) $11.58 million is sheltered from federal taxes for the heirs of ...

From an investing standpoint, we are in uncharted waters, right? The two-month downturn, February and March, were certainly severe. But an article authored...

Do you believe the worst is over? Wall Street traders seem to think so. After the large U.S. market indices fell 12% in March, I think most of us were expe...

We all understand the importance of social distancing during the global Covid-19 pandemic. Or do we? A new website is doing something ingenious; it is colle...

The world’s healthcare experts haven’t been able to give us a definitive date as to when a coronavirus vaccine will finally come to market—for obvious reason...

Although the CARES Act’s $2 trillion allocation to the economy has been compared to President Obama’s 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the more r...

One of the biggest economic impacts of the Covid-19 epidemic is not the second quarter economic decline, but the longer-term ways it could transform our glob...

After we endured the 2008-9 Great Recession, where the global economy was brought to its knees (due to enrichment schemes by Wall Street and its brokers), we...

Efficient market theorists—the economists who believe that every investor is rational and every company’s true value is reflected in the last price paid for ...