Every Tuesday Some rules have been around as long as there have been mothers: Eat your vegetables. Don’t hit your sister. Floss. The investment world has similar maxims: Buy and hold. Don’t try to time the market. Buy what you know. Sensible rules. But when…
By Sandra Block FINAL EDITION Section: MONEY Page 3B If you’ve ever been stuck on an Amtrak train that has run out of sandwiches, you may have difficulty imagining a time when railways were heralded as an innovation that would forever change the way we…
For many, it makes sense to stay in the workforce After making a bundle and retiring at 55, Henry Hirsch set out one morning to develop a routine for the years ahead. He had spread out his papers on the kitchen table and was placing…
3:28 EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — So where does Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who knows more about the economy than almost anybody, put his own money? No irrational exuberance for him. He shuns the stock market for the safest investment of all — short-term Treasury…
By RICHARD C. TEN WOLDE Dow Jones Newswires NEW YORK — Science and technology mutual funds have risen from their ashes this year, but whether they can maintain their current climb is far from certain. After crumbling in the fourth quarter, science and technology funds…
San Francisco Examiner/Chronicle, Tuesday, January 23, 1996, by Edward Iwata THE LOVE OF MONEY MAY not be the root of all evil. But it sure influences our values, our behaviors, our psychologies – for better or worse. Look at the San Francisco lawyer who foolishly…
Edward Iwata, writing in the SF Chronicle/Examiner on January 21, 1996, describes the “money makeover” that Dave provided to a thirty-something mother of two young children. Ed’s opening paragraphs seem as relevant in 2013 as they were in 1996: LET’S FACE it: Most of us…