Topic: Economic Education

Eight Market Predictions for 2016

– January 6, 2016

Markets go up and down daily. For every buyer, there is a seller. But there is a broader historical point here. Even during periods of relative growth, there are negative stretches.

Economic Education

You Can’t Invest What You Don’t Save

– December 22, 2015

The most brilliant investment strategy in the world will not make up for a lack of putting money aside. How much you save versus how much you spend is the most important driver of whether you will succeed in having money for your future financial goals.

Economic Education

A Zen Approach to Long-term Investing

– December 4, 2015

There is one core tenet to my investment philosophy: Focus on important factors that you can control.

Economic Education

Investing: Don’t Pay for Past Performance

– November 24, 2015

Investing for retirement should be a long-term process. It would be nice to extrapolate meaning from three- or five-year performance, but more often than not we may actually be chasing returns that are likely to regress to the mean in the future.

Economic Education

Investment Management Isn’t Rocket Science

– September 22, 2015

Financial professionals recognize that many smart people, even those with large sums of money, don’t have a deep understanding of investing. What they’ve found is that if they can make something seem extra difficult, they can convince you that they must be doing a good job.

Economic Education

Investing

– August 14, 2015

Summer recap Our “summer vacation” edition reviews the investing scene at mid-year: Bond yields remain low, equities have performed reasonably well, and commodities have tumbled. While the latest data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis revised GDP fi …

Economic Education

Financial First Steps: How to Establish Credit

– August 4, 2015

For those who aren’t students and are attempting to build credit, there is a hurdle to overcome, because lenders abide by the unwritten law, “you must have credit to get credit.” Fortunately, there are a number of ways to overcome this.

Economic Education, Video

Entrepreneurs and the U.S. Economy

– July 31, 2015

https://youtu.be/In_Uk76be3E

Economic Education, Video

Effectiveness of Employer Provided Financial Information

– July 31, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE68l39X_qg

Economic Education, Research Briefs

The Case for Increasing Stock Exposure in Retirement

– July 27, 2015

Workers who are saving for retirement through IRAs and 401(k)s probably have been asked about asset allocation—how much they want to invest in stocks, bonds, or other investments, and the level of risk they are willing to tolerate with their retirement savings. Those who are already in retirement face a new challenge: how to allocate their investments to generate the income they will need for the rest of their life.

Economic Education, Video

What Macroeconomists Need to Understand about Technology and Evolutionary Economics

– July 20, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WQNQrk3yXY

Economic Education, Research Briefs

A New Insight for Investors: How Financial Markets Interact with the Economy

– June 29, 2015

Do changes in the economy affect the stock and bond markets? From day to day, fluctuating prices in the financial markets are of great interest for high-frequency traders. But daily market movement is so volatile that economists call it a “random walk” whose next steps are unpredictable. To date, no clear pattern of daily movement has been found by researchers.