Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.

Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.

Finding the best person or the best organization to invest your money is one of the most important financial decisions you'll ever make.

We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.

Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for "machines" are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.

Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market.

Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.