In the face of the uncertainties in today’s economy, reader / blogger Enrico Hale shares some investment ideas with us today — and invites us to share our own.
I recommend gold.
In pillowcases.
Lots of folks were evidently keeping score during last night’s Democratic debate, with points awarded (or subtracted) for any number of categories: foreign policy, Iraq, health care, and immigration reform, for instance.
But there’s very little discussion about the single-most telling interchange for Polimom. It came near the beginning, with Hillary’s quick touch on […]
Economics probably heads the list of things about which I cannot claim expertise, so I’m lucky in that Dear Husband (DH) — who is an expert — is not only available to me as a resource, but has the gift of explaining things on my terms.
Like many folks, I tend to lay blame (or award […]
When Polimom’s Adorable Child (AC) was born, we were painfully poor, but we always knew that we wanted AC to go to college one day. Since we really had no expectation of hitting the Lotto (I hear the odds are better if you actually buy a ticket), we started collecting all our spare change.
There are […]
It’s probably too early in the morning to comment on this article from the NY Times (slightly truncated version available from the Houston Chronicle, here), but the cognitive dissonance is too great to ignore:
Could it be possible that you are saving too much for your retirement?
[snip]
[… A] small band of economists from universities, research institutions […]