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How to Survive Bear Country
If you have been paying attention to the news the last few weeks, the stock market has seen better days. In the month of February, the stock market loss more…
4 Ways Not To Sink Your Retirement Savings
Retirement planning is hard. It’s an activity you start when you are young and forego instant gratification for an abstract concept for when you are older. Having a plan in…
The Different Kind of Markets for Investing
The financial market is a rather broad term that encompasses several individual markets under its umbrella. A market’s textbook definition is a place where people, companies and/or entities can trade…
The Story of Bulls and Bears
If you are paying attention to the financial world’s news, you can see that the last few weeks have been something of a rollercoaster. One minute the market is posting…
4 of the Safer Places for Your Money
In this day and age, we have an overwhelmingly huge amount of choices for almost everything in our lives. Dozens of cars to pick from, countless food options to put…
What are Index Funds and How They Help Build Wealth
If you are new to the investing world and have been doing research on where and what to get started with, you may have stumbled across two different strategies. The…
Making Life Insurance Cents: Why, What, And When To Buy
Life insurance can be a rather grim topic to bring up. You are technically betting the insurance company that your own mortality will win out in the end. Even so,…
What is the Stock Market and How Does it Work?
The stock market can be an intimating place. Countless amounts of money transferring hands on a daily basis, scenes of chaos erupting from the floor of the New York Stock…