Investment Strategies

In the other articles in our “Retire at 55” series, we’ve talked a lot about “saving” for retirement. But the truth is that you will never be able to save enough money to retire (and certainly not retire early) if you simply stash it away in a savings account. Instead, when we say “saving” for […]

There’s one very specific thing I remember about my dad’s views on investing. He told me multiple times that he simply wouldn’t touch certain investments, out of principle alone. For starters, he refused to ever short a stock. That’s because shorting a stock is basically betting on someone else to fail, meaning you profit off […]

America is a leader in many things, but I’m not sure they should be proud of pioneering this particular thing. I’m talking about vested interest. (Or sometimes referred to as “golden handcuffs.) Plenty of companies use vested interest as a way to keep their employees from leaving. In some cases, people are delaying their own […]

One of the ways you can create a good revenue stream is to become involved in income investing. Income investing is all about making solid, relatively safe investment choices that actually produce regular income. This can include interest-bearing investments like bonds and some cash products. It can also include dividend stocks. If you’ve ever wondered […]