The 6 safe places to invest your money.

Here are some of the safest places to invest your money. But the price of safety may be low return.
Warren Buffett’s mentor, legendary investor Benjamin Graham, wrote that when challenged “to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.” Those are wise words for all seasons, but [...]

The bailout plan cost.

Bernanke warned that a recession might come if the bailout plan did not pass. And as much as I like the idea of the government bailout of Wall Street — I hate government interference in the free markets, and bailouts can encourage more bad behaviour. It is hard to get a good understanding of the [...]

Three reasons why you shouldn’t panic and sell your stocks

The government bailout that was supposed to save the financial sector from certain doom failed to pass vote on Congress. Does that mean we now face certain doom? I think not.
I don’t want to sound Pollyanna-ish and I don’t really have a crystal ball (as my headline promises), but here are some reasons why investors [...]

How Worried Should You Be?

With much of Wall Street and Washington in panic mode, investors and consumers might feel like they should be on the move, too. But what to do: Buy? Sell? Stuff the mattress? Head for the hills?
Maybe just digest. There’s a lot to swallow, coming off a weekend that saw the nation’s housing-mortgage-credit crunch roll over [...]

What’s Really Going on with the Stock Market Today?

Have you heard the news?:
—- The U.S. lost 84,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate
rose to a five-year high.
—- Foreclosures of U.S. homes rose to a new 29-year high in the
second quarter of 2008.
—- The Federal government, after bailing out Bear Sterns this
summer, announced this weekend that it will rescue mortgage
giants [...]

The 10 worst property investments ever

Homeowners across the land are holding their collective breath as daily reports show the housing market threatens all out collapse. The likelihood, however, is that losses over the next year or two will not nearly be enough to reverse the huge gains of the last ten years.
But not every real estate investor is this fortunate. [...]

The 10 worst stock market investments ever.

After bringing you the shares that could have made you a millionaire, let’s take a look at some stocks that did the exact opposite.
1. Maxwell Communication Corporation.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s this company, formerly known as BPCC, was one of the world’s largest media groups. But the sudden and mysterious death of Robert [...]