Financial Planning and Investment Blog
This week's reading list focuses on the investment outlook today: if bonds are a good investment now, what to do about the market weakness, recap of an excellent market volatility webinar, what Buffett is doing with his money, and problems with crypto. We then turn to the NBA's China problem, the history of Memorial Day, and the latest book recommendation.
The investment case for Bitcoin is that it'll go up in value as it's used more as a currency, but why would anyone want to pay $300 million for two pizzas?
This week's reading list looks at why you should hold onto your bonds, today's market outlook, why this market sell-off is a good thing, Bernanke on current Fed policy, home cyber insurance protection, 529 plan tax benefits, investment advice for your college grad, latest book recommendation and more.
High inflation and rate hikes have caused the bond market to struggle for the first time in a while. You're tempted to bail on your bonds. Looking at one reason this makes sense and explaining why it doesn't in other situations.
This week's reading list focuses on excesses getting wrung out of the market, value's comeback, one asset class that's up this year, how many Bitcoin investors are losing money, why the market goes up, hole-in-one insurance, whether China is in a recession, latest book recommendation and more.
The FAANG stocks were on a tear until some of them weren't. Looking at why, and more importantly, what to do about it and why you should care even if you don't own them directly.
College planning advice, how to react to this market weakness and a market prediction for optimists, recapping the Berkshire Hathaway meeting, 103 bits of advice, markets recover but individual stocks don't always, FiveThirtyEight says the stimulus checks were a mistake, latest book and movie recommendations and more.
Prohibition lasted thirteen years and led to the Federal income tax as we know it, the mob and the Klan, Walgreens and Nascar.
Today's top investing questions answered, which stocks to buy to protect against rising rates, Bitcoin in 401(k), Netflix and Facebook stock plunge, breaking down today's high inflation and what to do about it, why the housing market won't crash, latest book recommendation and more.
Work-life balance for women, recession watch, underspending in retirement, Russian investors frozen funds, crypto bash, FDA's food failure, 50 best places to travel, latest book recommendation and more