Best 2012 Stocks Contest — Diversified ETF Portfolio
As you may be aware, I am not the only investment or financial blogger on the web! The web has provided such a great resource for everyone interested in investing; the collaboration is incredible. The Financial Blogger has a yearly contest in which other bloggers develop portfolios of four stocks that they think will outperform the market in that [...]
Inflation: The Killer of Investment Returns
We know what inflation is: the rising of prices. If you had $20 today and put it under your mattress, 20 years from now, that $20 would have a lot less buying power. Let’s look at an example. The government tracks inflation in order to make adjustments to Social Security. Its inflation metric is called the [...]