Following the historic Hurricane Sandy, economists and pundits from both sides of the mainstream media started debating whether or not the storm would negatively impact the national economy.
However, there are dangers inherent in this system that investors should be aware of. They may not know it, but the supposed stability promised by ETF firms is not as rock-solid as they claim.
Today, we’ll look at how investors can adjust their portfolios to handle the potential financial disaster that sequestration could cause.
If a company’s stock value begins to plummet, all a regular investor can really do is either dump their shares or wait it out. In extreme cases, a person could see their wealth simply wiped out entirely.
Today, we’ll review the definition of quantitative easing, what it means for investors and what they can do to avoid losing money due to misguided government intervention.
In this piece, we’ll look at some of the problems associated with Social Security and propose better ways you can use to invest for your future.
Today, we’ll look at several revelations that have come to light recently about HFT, including one from a former Wall Street trader.
The problem in question is high-frequency trading, which is conducted by computer algorithms capable of computing hundreds of thousands of trades per second.