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The practice of short selling - or betting against a specific stock or security - has all kinds of intrinsic risks and costs that need to be understood before it should be used as a tactic. Not grasping these risks can lead to all kinds of horror stories. Today’s infographic addresses the question of whether the risk of short selling is worth the potential payoff.

If you pay close attention to investment news, it'll either make you laugh or it'll drive you bonkers. Within the same hour, and on the same market news website, you will often see completely contradictory articles. One says the market is headed higher; the next says the market is about to tank. Q: What's a smart investor to do? A: Be very careful about your information diet.

Buying a home can be a great step along the path to financialreal-estate1 freedom, but it can also become a burden if you're not careful. A mortgage can be a heavy weight on your finances if you either buy a house you can't afford, or get locked into unfavorable loan terms. Here's how to tell if your mortgage is too expensive.

Should you ever lose your job, need cash for an emergency, or suddenly find yourself facing steep medical bills, you just might be the next target of a predatory lender. Worried that a predatory lender might have targeted you? Here are the warning signs.

Here's what happens if you're not able to pay everything you owe to the IRS, as soon as you owe it:

Like casino gamblers, most small resource stock buyers motivated by one or two wins continue to play the game until the ‘House’ has their money. Here’s a few common mistakes retail investors make speculating in junior resource stocks.

You can easily hire people who claim to be good investment advisers but they hardly ever are. They're usually downright lousy investment advisers, and it's worth learning how to identify them and I group them into three categories: The delusional, the liar, and the secretly mediocre.

Here are some simple steps you can take toward retirement readiness.

The continuing support for these bubble markets is shocking to a thinking person, but it reveals that MOST leaders/administrators/traders/investors do not think. What is happening today could be reported as dire/ominous to a person of discernment and understanding…but to financial administrators and political leaders who need pumped-up markets to prevent chaos this mindset is unlikely to change.

Mainstream economic indicators aren’t telling the whole story. We looked beyond the headlines to understand how the economy’s really doing and we found something disturbing in our research that almost no one is talking about.