393:Economic Impact of Emerging Technologies

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392: Back to School: Tax Mitigation

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The LAST Weekly Wealth Widget :(

For the last year, every week I sent out a “weekly wealth widget” every Friday. Last week, I wrote an article about speculation and asymmetric bets. It was a good article and I was waiting to see your responses on Friday morning. But then…something happened. It didn’t come out! Of course, my immediate response was to curse at […]

What are penny stocks?

What are penny stocks anyway? You always here about them but does anyone actually invest in them? Well, some do and do quite well. However, it is a very specialized area of investing and should be approached cautiously. Here’s a basic run down of how they work. Investing in penny stocks is an option many […]

Basic Finance Bootcamp Lesson 7: Market Orders Versus Limit Orders

So now that you know a little bit about how the stock market works, let’s make sure you have some of the lingo down. As you will see below, ignorance on some of these terms can make your slick trading techniques costly. Today we are going to discuss market orders versus limit orders. The most […]

Basic Finance Bootcamp Lesson 5: Municipal Bonds

You’re probably sick of talking bonds by now, but we have one more category that we have to cover before you have all the basics that you need in this category. This last major bond category is municipal bonds. As the name implies, municipal bonds are bonds issued by local and state governments. While most […]

Basic Finance Bootcamp Lesson 4: Treasury Bills, Notes, Bonds, TIPS, and STRIPS

This is lesson 4 in my basic finance bootcamp series. I hope you are not getting bored to death. Again, think of this as the foundation for many of the more exciting, exotic topics we discuss in the futre. In the last lesson, we talked about bonds. Bonds can be issued by private companies but […]