I woke up this morning wanting to answer one question more than any other. Why is the yield on a 2-year bond (4.37%) higher than the 10-year yield of 4.35%? [1] After some research, I have to admit I'm still a little lost. Understanding how our economy runs is not my strong suit (you'd be better...

If you have less than $50,000 to invest in securities you kinda get screwed. All of us here at InvestorGeeks are just starting out, in our Mid-20s and have less than $50k in investments. Now I love to learn about investing, but I’m nobody’s fool, and so I want to build a foundation of safe...

I've become very interested recently in fellow investment blogger Phil Town's site, and so I've been reading it from start to finish. After reading much of his site, I've come to enjoy his style of writing and investing. Ever the skeptic though, I wanted to make sure he's not just some shill on the...

So. I've been out of it for awhile, but I'm back now, and I'll be making appearances here as I can. At the moment I have little or no free time, between work and planning my upcoming wedding. Which reminds me I still need a guest list. So without any further non-sense let's get into this, and I'll...

Just wanted to make everyone aware that TT over at Retire at 30 has started a Carnival of Investing. For those unaware, blog carnivals are a group of blogs that get together and each week one of the members summarizes the week's best posts for readers. There's more information about this carnival...

Last week we heard the news that Google would pay $1 Billion for 5% ownership in AOL. Here are some bullet points from Google's press release: > - Creating an AOL Marketplace through white labeling of Google's advertising technology - enabling AOL to sell search advertising directly to...

In The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham encourages investors to divide their holdings among two broad types of investment: bonds and stocks. He recommends dividing an investors' portfolio between them from 25% to 75%, depending on the investors' financial goals. Because stocks provide all the...

Last Thursday, Chris wrote about Big Mother Mutual Funds and pointed out some reasons why you might not want to buy the "biggest and best" when it comes to mutual funds. Another problem with large mutual funds is that they lose their flexibility to invest in small-cap stocks. These funds are making...

Relatively new investors may have heard about ETFs but are still unsure what they are. Well, ETFs, or Exchange Traded Funds, are a type of investment fund that is traded like a stock on the open markets, but typically track an index such as the Nasdaq-100 or S&P 500. First introduced in 1989, ETFs...

Pulling out of Index Funds? In last Tuesday's article, I talked about John Mauldin's book Bull's Eye Investing which speculates that we are in the beginning of a secular bear market. I'm just now getting to the part of the book where he talks about what to do about that situation. Among other...