I've been reallocating my investments in my Roth IRA over the last few days working under one simple principle: Would I buy it today at the current price? It was easy to sell stuff that had gone up and I thought was currently overvalued. For example, I was up about 10% on Las Vegas Sands (LVS). I don't think the
The other day I was lamenting the fact that I can't get any better than a 1.1% return on a CD, which means there's no point to even consider tying up my money for such a low rate of return. It makes it so hard to save money when the interest rate you can get at a bank is lower
As you probably know by now I'm very worried about the growing American Government bubble and I believe that investing in dividend paying companies in countries with a trade surplus is the safest way to put money in the stock market. But the stock market isn't the only place to invest. If you want to ensure your money retains it
If you believe conventional wisdom (the same "wisdom" that didn't predict the housing bubble bursting or the Great Recession) then some of the safest places to put your money are savings accounts, US Savings Bonds, CD, Treasury Bills or Treasury Bonds. The problem with conventional wisdom is that all these investments are only safe if the dollar is safe. If
This is the first of a four-part series where I'm going to make some pretty unconventional investment recommendations. Today I'm going to tell you the "problem" and during the rest of the week I'm going to tell you how I think you can make money off the problem. I believe this is one of the scariest economic times in recent
For those of you stock market investors out there, what is the most important thing you look for when trying to identify an online brokerage account? In my mind there's only two ways for an online stock trading service to differentiate themselves from the rest of the pack: they need to offer cheap trades (most important) and they need to
