Legendary investor Peter Lynch once said that if you spend 13 minutes per year on economics, you’ve wasted 10 minutes. Although I spend more than three minutes per year looking…
…IRA or Roth IRA within 60 days. If completed within a 60 day period, there are no taxes or penalties. I’ve done this maneuver before personally, thinking that it was…
…weren’t likely to go lower, which meant that they would have to go higher. I was wrong on both counts. First, I’ve come to believe that until rates are at…
…It seemed like such a remote possibility that I haven’t given it any thought since then. Seeing the burning Quick Trip and reading that most commercial businesses would probably be…
…actually estimated tax payments on income that is not subject to withholding. Estimated taxes are generally paid if you are a sole proprietor, partner, or corporation shareholder although anyone can…
…market, thereby distorting normal market forces and propping up bond prices for sure, and probably stock prices as well. Some people, although I am not one of them, think that…
…a chump compared to an entrepreneur that founded a dot-com and put his founder’s shares into a Roth IRA. This person, believed to be 39-year old Max Levchin of Yelp!,…
…and currencies from around the world. This site is run by Research Affiliates, an investment research firm that develops indexes and strategies that other investment managers license. They say that…
…think most people did, that interest rates had a ‘zero bound,’ meaning that the yield can’t go below zero, which created an asymmetric risk profile of limited upside (prices go…
…MSCI, the world’s most popular index creator for non-US stock indexes announced they would not be adding Chinese A-shares to their emerging markets indexes. MSCI believes there are too many…
