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Her Childhood Poverty Made Her a Financial Powerhouse

I always felt very insecure financially as a child. I was desperate to understand money. I was desperate to be

16 Sep

This Investing Giant Says P/E Ratios Are The Wrong Measure

Investing great Chuck Akre has been known to buy companies with what The Wall Street Journal called "scarily high”

15 Sep

Cathie Wood Believes Corrections Are Good

Corrections are good; they keep us all humble. – Catherine 'Cathie' Wood After achieving earlier success in her investing

12 Sep

Why Your 30-Year Mortgage May Be a Good Thing

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage. — Doug Larson If columnist

11 Sep

Why Market Booms Are Unlikely to Be Bubbles

Focusing attention on a few big crashes in financial history ignores the base rate for bubbles. In simple terms, bubbles

10 Sep

Would You Buy a Bond That Never Stops Paying Interest?

Yale University has a $40.1 billion endowment, but one of its most unconventional and unexpected assets is a perpetual

09 Sep

To This Grande Dame, Cold Hard Cash Is Always Mister Right

Geraldine Weiss was called the “Grande Dame of Dividends." Not only was she one of the first great female

08 Sep