Adding to the currently scary investment climate is the cheap (and cheapening) US dollar. Once considered THE reserve currency of choice, it is now one of a number of choices, and less of a standout every day.
Financial writing is most interesting when it predicts the future, as this article does: Why the U.S. Dollar Will [...]

So I’m sitting at my desk, doing research into international real estate index funds, when all of a sudden I’m in an earthquake.  Or at least I think I was.  Nothing on the news so far.
There was a bit of gentle shaking, a pause, then some more gentle shaking. Before we could press ourselves inside the [...]

Active trading strategies can become incredibly complex.  They remind me a bit of astrology:  the inner workings of the system are so complex that you quickly get lost inside.  With each failure to predict the future, you figure you just need to learn more, and there is an endless variety of active trading strategies to learn.  [...]

Published on the Motley Fool:  Will Dividend Stocks Survive? 
I remember when the Motley Fool was first launched in 1993 by two optimistc brothers who felt that anyone could pick stocks.  Now it seems that the entire site is a sales pitch for their newsletters.  Turns out that not just anyone can pick stocks - at [...]

Forbes can’t seem to stop writing pro-indexing articles. Here’s how this one starts:
“There are many ways to invest your money, but for the long term, stock index funds are one of the best ways to go.
Index funds follow the market instead of trying to beat it and have lower expense ratios than traditional mutual funds. [...]