We’ve always had media censorship, but we always could rely on social media to show us what we haven’t been allowed to see elsewhere. Times are really changing. Censorship has always been a big issue with popular media, but social media brought about a revolution where we could now see all the sorts of views […]

While the country turned their heads from the massive economic damage that the coronavirus quarantine has been causing, we won’t be able to look away forever. Before this year, if you asked anyone what the threshold would need to be in order to shut down most of the country like we have done lately, it […]

In the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, with the world clamoring for a vaccine against this, many investors are hoping to cash in on this. It may not be all that exciting though. Investing in stocks that promise more effective, or at least more profitable medical treatments can seem like a pretty exciting prospect at […]

Pointing to several current issues that by themselves would normally weigh on stocks significantly, Goldman sees us giving back 18% of recent stock market gains over the next 3 months. The moment stocks started to rebound from the 35% nosedive caused by the coronavirus outbreak and its economic response, pundits started to line up to […]

Warren Buffett doesn’t dump his positions very often, so when he gets rid of all of his airline stocks, because he thinks they are just that bad, this is going to alarm some people. Warren Buffet once swore he’d never own an airline stock again. Back in 2007, he told investors that “if a farsighted […]

With Georgia already moving to open their economy up more, and most states having their stay at home orders expiring soon, how we do this has become a huge debate. There is no shortage of people who are eager to warn us about opening our economy too soon, and this situation has become polarized between […]

It is believed that small cap stocks lose more during pullbacks because they are smaller and therefore more sensitive to economic downturns. The real reason is simpler than that. It shouldn’t be as difficult and complicated to understand the movement of stock prices as we try to make it. The issue with small caps unsurprisingly […]

Burton Malkiel’s influence upon stock market thinking has been remarkable. He’s still promoting market randomness at age 87, and remains pretty bullish. Former Princeton economic professor Burton Malkiel has written a few books on investing, including the iconic A Random Walk Down Wall St: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing. He’s also the father of […]

While stocks in emerging markets such as India generally lag U.S. stocks considerably, they do have their time and place. This looks like it may be the time and place to act. Many investors don’t put much thought into their decisions, and will instead just follow popular investing ideas just because they are popular, with […]

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been speaking about a coming pandemic for 5 years now. He believes we need a vaccine to put all this behind us. As we move further and further along in our battle with COVID-19, a lot of the discussion has naturally turned to what our exit strategy will be. While […]