Back when I was a financial young’un, I went to one of those free seminars hosted by a mutual fund company. Speaking there was a financial “guru” that I had admired for some time. I had read his books, watched his weekly tv show, and scanned his newspapers columns. I really thought he knew anything...

My recent "discussions" with fellow InvestorGeek, Steve, about "baseball cards" as a metaphor for stocks have prompted more thinking on my part. Isn't that what you wanted, Steve? Actually, I've already known that trading stocks is very much like trading baseball cards. I've already blogged about...

After reading Erin's great post a few days ago and talking about it with one of my good friends, and after a conversation I had with my fiancee, the question came up, "When is enough, enough?" Erin and Ken both quoted Trump and Rich Dad, Full of Shit Dad as saying you need to invest to win, how...

On Saturday afternoon, a friend of mine called me and said “You don’t have to watch the Illinois game.” I said, “They lost right.” He said, “They were up 25-7 and the quarterback had 175 yards passing in the first half. He ended up with 190 yards passing for the game because they kept running the...

At Motley Fool, bad information and skewed research are the topic of the day. Good ol' Mathew Emmert over at Motley fool posted an article this week, which you can read here, that states that "dividend stocks beat the market." Whoopdie freakin' doo. We've all heard this before, even some people...

Great conversation about Why the Poor Will Always Be With Us. I wanted to continue that by addressing some of the issues raised from the 'soap box' I've been given. (wink) I raised the issue that more money does not solve the problems of people who do not know how to manage it. JDawg and Lisa...

Most of you are probably looking at stocks and thinking about moving averages, technical analysis, and probably running some scanner application to find the latest and greatest stock to invest in. Maybe some of you will use fundamental analysis to figure out what the cash flow or earnings per share...

The Naked Economist (and no ladies, he is not actually naked in the picture, disappointing I know) in his most recent Yahoo Finance Article made this comment: > The living wage: Wouldn't it be great if everyone in America earned at least $12 to $15 an hour? I think it would be. The fact that...

What is a cap rate? A cap rate (or capitalization rate) is the net operating income divided by the price of a property. If you have a $100,000 property and its net operating income is $10,000 the cap rate for this property is 10%. What does this mean to you? How have cap rates affected the current...

In case you doubt my membership in InvestorGeeks, I love movie trivia! What's the highlight scene in James Dean’s 1950s cult movie, Rebel Without a Cause? You are right if your answer is the game called chicken, where Dean and his rival each drove a car towards a cliff. There are many variations of...