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Taking Financial Risks

Friday, October 1st, 2010

It is important to take financial risks.The higher the level of risk you take, the higher your return will be if you succeed. The right investment for you depends on many things, but the two most important factors are 1) your realistic time horizon, and 2) your aversion to risk. However, that doesn’t mean you [...]

Social Security and Inflation

Monday, May 4th, 2009

So we all know that we are facing massive troubles with Social Security. We are paying into a system that we are not sure will still be around when we need it. This is because we are not simply paying into an account that we can tap into later on, but we are paying into [...]

How do we know when the recession is ending?

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

For the past 2 years Americans have been asking when we would know that we were in a recession.  While everyone was denying that there was a recession or that one was coming, it just seemed to creeping up on us.  Now few will claim that we are not in the thick of a recession. I [...]