Category Archives: Money Madness or Money Miracle
Is the “permanent portfolio” hyper-diversification worth considering?
After the last couple of years, many investors are wondering if there’s an investment strategy that could have avoided all that volatility while still earning the returns they’ll need to retire on time. This Marketplace article discusses the “permanent portfolio” strategy developed by the late investment adviser Harry Browne. The portfolio arguably has the best [...]
Are Games the Answer to Our Future Financial Literacy Problems?
A recent article by Heather Larson introduces 8 games that teach children and young adults about managing money and credit, but are financial games enough to teach the next generation about financial responsibility? Games like Payday, Monopoly and Life have been around for years, and yet previous generations have failed to understand the simple idea [...]
Would you dump the stocks in your retirement portfolio in exchange for greatly reduced risk?
The traditional investment advice is to buy stocks and hold them for the long run. The problem is that there have been many long periods of time when the stock market remained essentially flat or even negative. Most recently, stocks lost about -.95% a year over the ten year period ending in 2009. That doesn’t [...]
How young is too young to shop?
On a recent episode of Shark Tank, a show where entrepreneurs pitch their businesses to venture capitalists to secure financing, one entrepreneur was looking for capital to expand a store that sells exclusively to young children who buy gifts for their parents as a way to teach them about the shopping experience. The store looks [...]
Managing Your Finances Separately as a Married Couple: Is it a Marriage-Saving Money Miracle or Sheer Money Madness?
There are two schools of thought when it comes to marriage and finances. A growing number of people are choosing to keep their finances separate, so they can manage their money their way and don’t have to be impacted by their spouse’s financial decisions. Others think that this defeats the whole purpose of marriage– the [...]
