Yesterday we learned about asset allocation, where you decide which asset classes are right for you.  Today, I’ll help you decide what investments are right for you inside a specific asset class.  Again the name of the game is managing risk, this time by diversifying within an asset class.
It wouldn’t do you much good to [...]

Welcome to class my friends, we have class today and tomorrow, with some extra credit coming after that.
Personal finance and investing advocates preach many terms.  Perhaps none are as important as asset allocation and diversification.  Today we’re going to talk about asset allocation and tomorrow I have a course on diversification.
For the sake of argument, [...]

Yesterday, I talked about certain mutual funds being in trouble.  There hasn’t been a mass exodus from investing like this since 2000.  So today we’ll talk about what happens when a mutual fund goes out of business.

Like any business, times can get tough.  Once a company has more money going out than in, it must [...]

Think back to our two courses on mutual funds, Weakon 205 and 305.  For a brief review, mutual funds are companies that pull investments from many people together.  The advantage for the investor is access to a professional advisory, the reduction in expenses over buying your own stocks, and quick and easy diversification.  I fully [...]

As long promised, I have finally decided which candidate to endorse.  Let’s look at the issues and then tomorrow I’ll tell you who I picked and why.  This isn’t me forcing my political views, merely an informed citizen walking you through the process of picking a candidate.  Again, I’m not forcing my views on you, [...]

“Dow Below 10,000 For The First Time Since 2004!”
“Dow Below 9,000 For The First Time Since 2003!”
“Dow Tanks Record 800 Points in One Day!”
Do these headlines look familiar?  You can’t go to a news site or watch a news show without seeing it.  The importance of the matter is intensified once the likes of Saturday [...]

Normally a highly advanced topic which would require some prerequisite courses, recent events and a reader request have pushed Short Selling to the front of the College of Weakonomics agenda.
Short selling is the exact opposite of buying stock.  You purchase stock because you expect the price to go up.  Let’s say I buy Wachovia stock [...]

This won’t be funny.  And this is no Weaky.  This is about an unstable man that couldn’t handle the economic turmoil, despite being well off.
Karthik Rajaram was a 45 year old man that had done well for himself, with the exception being the most recent months.  By all accounts this guy had many things going [...]