Posted October 1, 2009 - 07:00 by Xin Lu
Stocks, bonds, and real estate are investments we are all fairly familiar with. In the recent economic turmoil, many people are looking for alternative investments to maintain the value of their assets. Here are three long term "investments" that you could enjoy while you wait for possible price appreciation.
Posted September 23, 2009 - 08:00 by Silicon Valley Blogger
With the stock market finally recovering to some degree this past month, even closing at highs for the year, a lot of investors may be breathing a sigh of relief about their stock investments. You may have checked your investment account recently and discovered your balance looking a bit healthier than it did several months ago. But given the volatility we've seen over the past year or so, can we really trust that the markets are reflecting a true recovery in our economy, or is this just a technical bounce?
Posted September 4, 2009 - 10:00 by Silicon Valley Blogger
It may be a little bit early to think about retirement all too seriously if you still have several decades left before you face it. But don't look now -- time flies and before you know it, there won't be much time to prepare for retirement. On this subject, the big question I have in mind is this: how do we know if we've saved enough for our retirement years?
Posted July 6, 2009 - 08:47 by Silicon Valley Blogger
Some consider participating in the stock market as a form of gambling. While I agree that not everyone should be risking their money in certain investments, I believe that by taking on an extreme view against investing in general, you could be missing out on potential growth in your net worth.
Posted May 20, 2009 - 14:16 by Silicon Valley Blogger
The stock market has experienced an unbelievable slump from a high of around 14,000 in the Dow Jones index sometime in 2007 all the way down to 8,000 last I checked. So as an investor, it's easy to fret over our portfolios especially when we hear a lot of investment "experts" declaring the "death" of the buy and hold strategy. Is it time to start listening to the critics of long term investing who are just now crawling out of the woodwork?
Posted April 10, 2009 - 09:49 by Silicon Valley Blogger
Where is the stock market headed? Any rally may simply be a "dead cat bounce". And while many investment experts are offering a variety of stock market predictions, some of those guesses will be wrong. But before you wonder who it is you should be listening to, know that there are ways to invest so that you aren't too vulnerable to market swings. Let's review some of those strategies here.
Posted January 6, 2009 - 07:27 by Linsey Knerl
Considering that I pay most bills online, I don’t use a whole lot of postage stamps these days. When I do, however, it almost always involves me digging through piles of paperwork to find that small sheet that I remembered buying some time ago. Do you also kick yourself for not buying forever stamps?
Posted October 9, 2008 - 22:25 by Xin Lu
With the recent upheaval in the financial markets, many individual investors are feeling the pain of shrinking investment accounts. In fact, over $2 trillion dollars have been wiped out from retirement accounts in the past 15 months. One of my friends says that it seems that every bit of money he contributes into his 401k is gone by the next statement. I understand how he feels, but I believe that young investors should try not to panic in these turbulent times and "stay the course" with their investments.
Posted September 26, 2008 - 10:10 by Xin Lu
Last year I wrote an article about how I used my Vanguard Tax Exempt Money Market Fund as a high yield checkings account, and this week I suddenly got quite a few hits for that article. So I wondered why that was and found that the yield for the tax exempt money market funds have shot up significantly.
Posted September 22, 2008 - 18:36 by Xin Lu
About a year ago I wrote an article about the Consumer Price Index that made some friends say that I am a conspiracy theorist, but apparently I am not alone in believing that the government reports statistics that are far from reality. John Williams is an Oakland based economist who has been running the website Shadow Government Statistics for more than five years, and he reports an alternate set of statistics based on his research. He believes that the government has been painting a rosy picture of the economy for many years, and his set of numbers are quite alarming if you believe it.
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