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How to Save Your Money and Your Life

By Doug Casey from Casey Research I think there are only two good reasons for having a significant amount of money: to maintain a high standard of living and to ensure your personal freedom. There are lesser reasons, of course, including: to prove you can do it, to compensate for failings in other things, to […]

Fear Risk, Not Volatility

By Jeff Nielson While watching a little television the other night, I was once again confronted by my biggest pet peeve: investment professionals who confuse risk and volatility. In this case, the offender was a TV commercial heralding the supposed virtues of an annuity with a “guaranteed rate of return.” The suggestion is that such […]