Wall Street recently paid out billions in bonuses to its employees. Those bonuses came from investors who believe investing is risky. In other words, there's a giant industry built around investor fears. The more fear, the bigger the bonuses. A recent Time magazine article c...
https://www.richdad.com/fear-can-cost-you
12/8/2014 2:17:47 PM
Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges. His onetime CEO and partner in crime, Jeffrey Skilling, wasn't so "lucky": He was sentenced to 24 years in prison last mon...
https://www.richdad.com/financial-predators
12/8/2014 2:17:50 PM
In 1966, I was traveling the Pacific aboard a freighter. I was 19 years old at the time and attending the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y. As part of my academy education, I spent a year as a student officer on freighters, passenger liners, oil tankers, and ...
https://www.richdad.com/the-dollars-last-days
12/8/2014 2:17:52 PM
Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the "intrinsic value" of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means. The good news is that once you understand intrinsic value, you may better understand why some investors make more money than o...
https://www.richdad.com/value-matters-more-than-price
12/8/2014 2:17:57 PM
All over the U.S. there are stories of a rise in real estate foreclosures. Many people who took those exotic mortgages -- borrowing 125% of home value or choosing adjustable-rate mortgages -- are struggling to make their payments, and some aren't making it. Also, a glut of n...
https://www.richdad.com/cooling-real-estate-market
12/8/2014 2:17:58 PM
Cleaning out my office recently, I found an old USA Today newspaper dated May 8, 2006, that I had not read. Glancing at the Money section, I came across an interesting array of articles. The headline of the Money section read, "Dow Closing on Record High". The article began:...
https://www.richdad.com/listen-to-the-right-experts
12/8/2014 2:17:59 PM
"What's good for General Motors is good for America," so a saying goes. I believe that statement is truer today than when it was first said some years ago. Right now, the carmaker is struggling. "The reason GM is in trouble is because its cars aren't that good," commented a ...
https://www.richdad.com/what-ails-gm
12/8/2014 2:18:00 PM
One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up. Most of us remember the insanity of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s. From 2000 and 2005, it was the real estate bubble. Today as I write, it's oil, gas, g...
https://www.richdad.com/favoring-silver
12/8/2014 2:18:00 PM
How many of you are old enough to have been working in 1973? If so, you would've had the kind of economic experience I did at that time. But if you were in school or missed the period of the oil crisis, get ready because those times could return with a vengeance. I left the ...
https://www.richdad.com/oil-crisis
12/8/2014 2:18:01 PM
"Is there a real estate bubble?" That's the question I'm asked repeatedly. When I reply honestly -- "I hope so" -- my questioners' fear occasionally turns into anger. "You want the market to crash?" asked one young man incredulously, an attendee at the Learning Annex's Real ...
https://www.richdad.com/booms-busts-opportunities
12/8/2014 2:18:02 PM
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