So you’ve finally listened to my endless posts about index fund investing. You’ve opened a Vanguard account and you’re ready to start socking away money and (hopefully) watching it soar. Almost there… you get to the “Choose Your Fund” page and… 127 matching funds?!? And 55 more ETFs?? Don’t faint just yet. I get it. […]

Hey Money Wizards, So you’ve decided to pass on becoming one of the 99% of stock traders underperforming the index, and you’ve opted for the time tested, Warren Buffet approved strategy of index fund investing. Unfortunately, there are quite a few options for index funds, and one of the most common questions I get is whether […]

You can make money trading individual stocks. Phew, I typed that opinion on a personal finance site, and my web page didn’t implode on itself from the incredulity of thousands of personal finance bloggers across the globe. You see, the common line of thinking in the personal finance blogosphere goes something like this: “You can […]

A few weeks ago, the financial world couldn’t stop talking about the old fisherman who, for the past 10 years, had secretly held onto a $100 million pearl… under his bed of all places. Although the complete lack of any kind of safe storage for the largest pearl ever discovered would personally make me a […]