Filed under: International markets, Bad news, Market matters, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis The U.S. banking crisis is getting more and more bizarre by the minute. We now focus on AIG. This is probably the greatest understatement of the decade: "AIG, American International Group Inc. (NYSE AIG) ...

Filed under: Good news Have you ever asked yourself? "is there a spirit of poverty? If you go to Japan the answer is: "yes." If you drive to the Bimbo Gami shrine in the mountains about a four hour drive from Tokyo, you will come face to face with the "god of poverty." The god of poverty is a wooden...

Filed under: International markets, Personal finance, Commodities, Financial Crisis This post was written as part of a feature offering ideas from bloggers on ways to make more money in 2009. See all 18 suggestions. Gold and the U.S. dollar are inexorably linked. The U.S. dollar represents the U.S. ...

Filed under: Competitive strategy, Mutual funds, Personal finance, Recession There is a theory of investing that says you must diversify. What does that mean? Quite simply it means that, in the overall, some stocks will rise and some will fall, but hopefully there will be more winners than losers an...

Filed under: Forecasts, Market matters, Housing, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis It looks like 2009 will be another mine field. There is no denying that we are in a deflationary phase with prices falling, notably in the housing markets. The Federal Reserve sees this deflation as the primary concer...

Filed under: Personal finance This is the time when investors sell their losers, take their losses, and use them to reduce their taxes. The sharp drop in the stock market could cause one of the biggest waves of tax-loss selling in several years. Investors can carry forward tax losses indefinitely an...