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...

Sticking with the baseball theme, this article is going to look at the fascination with people wanting to find that 'home run' stock. It's stupid. Quit doing it. It's unnecessary and a really bad strategy. I don't know how many times I've tried to explain to people that getting rich isn't a strike...

Real estate investors have become a cliché during the past 3-4 years. It seems like everyone you talk to is a real estate investor or knows someone who is. What makes real estate investing so popular? In the past few years you could do no wrong with real estate. With profits in the five and six...

Hi. Enough with the greetings, I'm not here to make friends, I'm here to make you think! Everything you have been told about the Stock Market is bullshit and I'm here to prove it to you. There are a lot of topics I want to cover and instead of just saying "Mutual Funds Suck", "Diversification is...

In a previous blog entry, about a month and a half ago, I commented on how oil will not reach 100 USD per barrel. I posed the argument that to reach a doubling of the oil price would require the price to reach 160USD, which would have devasted the economies of the world. Now oil is dropping and...