Investing

If you have no gold or silver, you will be “Greeced,” “Cyprused,” or otherwise financially screwed for not taking responsibility for your own economic future. Those who already own either or both gold and silver know this although they still foolishly complain about the paper price continuing to decline - and that focus is grossly misplaced. Here's why.

As history all too clearly shows, investors always do the “opposite” of what they should when it comes to investing their own money. They “buy high” as the emotion of “greed” overtakes logic and “sell low” as “fear” impairs the decision making process. Here are 5 biases that will keep you from achieving your long term investment goals.

We are now on HIGH ALERT!!!!! Grand Supercycle degree wave (IV)’s decline could start soon. We need to pay close attention and be prepared for a September 2015 event that triggers a stock market crash and economic depression.

Institutional investors are trying to micro-manage every minor blip in the markets instead of taking steps now to prepare for any downturn by asking themselves the following questions, determining the right answers and implementing them in preparation for such an eventuality.

There’s no secret to early retirement. It is possible, but it takes sacrifice, hard work and the right mindset to pull it off. Here's some good advice on how to make such a dream a reality.

Reasonable people understand that the stock market can go down as well as up so after a six year run that pushed the Dow Jones up dramatically, maybe it’s time to stop looking for reasons to buy stocks and begin looking for reasons to sell. This article presents 7 sound reasons to do the latter.

Chinese stock markets are in complete collapse right now, with the main Shanghai Composite index losing 30% of its value in just the past three weeks. This article explains why it has happened and what it means for other stock exchanges around the world.

We've reached a point in which the odds for further gains in the stock market are smaller than the odds to start losing money. Here are 10 warning signs why I believe that currently the risk is (far) greater than the reward!

Do I need to invest in foreign stocks when the U.S. companies are now so global and the markets are so highly correlated?

One way to gauge the level of concern about the situation in Greece is to see how many S&P 500 companies mentioned Greece relative to other countries during recent earnings conference calls so FactSet combed through the 21 earnings conference calls held since June 1 by S&P 500 companies and found these 9 countries to have been mentioned the most [where's Greece?].