Personal Finance

PowerTrend Brief: Odds Are High You Will Fall Short in Your Retirement

I scour a number of magazines, newspapers, financial filings, trade publications and, of course, the web each week...

PowerTrend Brief: Knowing What and When to Sell Amid New Stock Market Highs

With the Dow Jones Industrial Average at record highs and the S&P 500 not far away from setting...

No. 1 Mistake by the Media

The media reported last week that real income for Americans fell sharply, largely due to the tax increase...

The Global Guru: So Where Are the World’s Wealthy Putting Their Money Today?

As Ernest Hemingway famously wrote in The Snows of Kilimanjaro: "The rich are different from you and me....

Making Money Alert: Where to Next for Stocks?

The markets continue to trade painfully higher. I say painfully, because I can’t remember a time when so...

Making Money Alert: The New Currency War

Unless you’ve traveled to Tokyo recently, you may not have noticed that over the past several months, the...

PowerTrend Brief: The Orlando MoneyShow Confirms PowerTrend Investing

Last week was extremely busy. Not only did we get a few hundred companies reporting their quarterly results...

Making Money Alert: The Fed-Fueled Market Rolls on

The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) acted as just about everyone expected, serving up a dovish dose...

U.S. Mint Suspends Sales of Silver Dollars

Guns and ammo aren't the only things Americans are buying in record amounts. Last week, the U.S. Mint...

Making Money Alert: The Market’s at New Highs, So What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

The bulls are screaming, and during the past week we’ve seen the S&P 500 Index surge to its...