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  Choosing a financial advisor is a big decision…so avoiding these 7 common blunders can help you find peace of mind, and avoid years of stress. 1. Hiring the First Advisor You Meet While it’s tempting to hire the advisor closest to home or the first advisor in the yellow pages, this decision requires more time. Take the time to …

If you want any chance of success, you need to know what to do and you also MUST know what to steer clear of. This article shares 13 mistakes traders need to avoid like the plague. Learn them and stay away from them!

Here are 5 highlights for future retirees who seek to maximize benefits and understand how Social Security fits into a holistic financial plan that benefits from guaranteed lifetime income.

...Today’s infographic comes to us from Fisher Investments, and it describes the anatomy of market corrections, while also visualizing much of the data around these common events....

This article reviews the average costs of attending four-year public and private colleges nationwide since 1971. Both figures include tuition, fees, and room and board.

This article offers 8 suggestions on how to make investing a little easier. Most of the concepts are hardly new but bear repeating because they have proven to be VERY important in my experience.

Today’s infographic highlights facts and figures around counterfeit goods that are passed off as quality brands, and how this type of activity damages consumers, businesses, and the wider economy.

In preparing for retirement, there are nine deadlines everyone should keep in mind. These affect your retirement, taxes, Social Security, Medicare and other aspects of your financial health.

My long standing target for gold of $10,000 in today’s money and much, much higher in inflationary terms, is now more probable than ever but I hope it will never be achieved. When gold goes to $10,000, It will not just reflect inflation and falling currencies like in the 1970s but a much more serious or even catastrophic situation both in the U.S. and globally so let’s look at a potential scenario for the next few years. This is obviously not a forecast but more of a rough sketch of what could happen:

The U.S. government is hopelessly bankrupt reporting last week that it has a negative net worth of MINUS $75 TRILLION. Here's a look at how they see this problem being resolved - or not.