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Financial behavior on a napkin: The rear-view mirror
Sep 22, 2011
Carl Richards gives us another napkin drawing about how our natural impulse to base future decisions on past performance leads to accidents.
High demand for Russian Internet search company stock
Peter van Dyk Sep 22, 2011
Shares in the Russian Internet search company Yandex shot up today. In the company's IPO yesterday, demand for shares was 17 times the number available.
Dollar Cost Averaging--Revisited
Chris Farrell May 25, 2011
A nice savings tool for long-term investors is dollar cost averaging. Technically, dollar cost averaging means putting the same amount of money...
Pretend investing can have a real upside
Sean Cole Sep 22, 2011
UpDown.com lets you play the markets risk-free. And get paid if you are among the best performing users every month.
Gen-X and risk
Chris Farrell May 21, 2011
Risk matters when it comes to investing. Our guest blogger builds on that key insight. Moshe A. Milevsky is a finance and mathematics professor at...
Gen-Xers scared of Wall Street
Sep 22, 2011
After seeing their fair share of financial crises, Generation X is pretty gun-shy when it comes to investing. SmartMoney's Jilian Mincer discusses how Gen-Xers can get over their investing fears.
Investing for a catastrophic future
Chris Farrell May 20, 2011
Question: Recently I've read doom and gloom predictions about the US economy crashing into a depression as bad or worse as the 1930's due to the...
LinkedIn IPO heats up
Stacey Vanek Smith Sep 22, 2011
The social networking site goes public tomorrow. Its stock price could say a lot about the tech bubble.
Why did Google just borrow $3 billion?
Bob Moon Sep 22, 2011
For Google and other companies sitting on pile of cash, it may seem strange to offer corporate bonds right now. But, then again, now might be the best time to borrow money.
Trust the government's "full faith and credit"
Chris Farrell May 11, 2011
Question: As a US Government employee I have been buying US Savings Bonds at work for years. If the Congress does not raise the debt limit what...
