Just like with basic economics, if you are getting your information from the government and general news sources, you are likely confused. It is the goal of these entities to keep you that way, thinking you need to keep coming to them for answers and regulation. The book Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive […]
How I Learn the Language of the Stock Market
Exposure to real life conversations and willingness to participate in said conversations are key to learning any foreign language. This is also true for any language associated with an area of specialty, even if the words are in English. If there is unfamiliarity with the concepts, it might as well be foreign. The language has […]
Investitopia
Investing a portion of income has too commonly been treated as synonymous with both hoarding and gambling. While in nearly every other area of life, the concept of risk is seen as concurrent with opportunity, when there is talk of investing money, one is often subject to accusations of everything from “explotation” to “irresponsibility” to […]
The Moral Superiority of a Wise Investment Strategy
Do you know who Fredric Bastiat is? I met him last year when I read this book: The Economics of Freedom: What Your Professors Won’t Tell You. In it he makes a thought provoking comparison between two brothers and their affect on the economy. One brother gives indiscriminately, lives beyond his cash flow, and when his […]
The Mother Who Invested in the Stock Market
When I was growing up I NEVER pictured myself participating in the stock market. It was another world, akin to a science fiction novel. When I married my husband, we began a limited savings program and became aware of inflation, which lead him to investigating investment choices. For some reason, he decided to get me […]