Category: How Funds Are Sold

I am a gamer.  I like role-playing games like Fallout and Final Fantasy as well as real-time strategy games like Starcraft.  However, according to the internet, I play these games all wrong.  I like to take my time and get lost in the story.  This is not the fastest or most…

There’s a theory/urban legend that everyone is just six degrees of separation from knowing every other person on the planet.  I prefer the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon theory that every actor is six degrees (or less) removed from working with Kevin Bacon.  For example, Sean Connery is two degrees…

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! It seems like reporters go out of their way to find the craziest people to put on camera for a story.  It certainly seems to be the case in the financial entertainment community where you can find perma-bear hucksters given the same regard as respected economists…

Fear is an investor’s constant companion.  We are supposed to be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy.  However, fear seems to loom largest when the markets are down and fades away when markets are up.  Pain of past losses gives birth to new fears that what…

Most of us think that we are above average drivers.  Likewise, I have never heard anyone say they are bad at investing.  After experiencing negative returns, the market is to blame or maybe the President of the United States is to at fault if they belong to the “wrong” political party….

“Step right up, folks!  Hurry!  Hurry!  Hurry!  You are mere moments away from learning a secret so massive, it could undermine our very way of life!  Please move in closer so everyone can hear!  Tell your family!  Tell your neighbor!  Act now and I’ll throw in a free American flag,…