(The title of today's post comes from the first minute of a lecture provided by David Swensen, Chief Investment Officer of Yale's endowment fund.) Man it would be great if someone paid me to learn. …

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John Maynard Keynes made the concept of The Paradox of Thrift (aka The Paradox of Savings) a mainstream economic theory. Essentially the theory is that ubiquitous individual savings leads to lower …

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Too Big To Fail We started hearing the term (more and more) "Too Big To Fail" during the credit crisis with respect to US banks. Essentially, people thought the cascade effect of allowing certain …

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David R. Kotok, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Cumberland Advisors Inc. shared some market commentary over the weekend in light of what is potentially happening in Libya. There is conjecture …

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I'm pleased to announce that I've started a guest writing role with The Investor Education Fund's public site for investor education. The first series of articles is going to go into some depth about …

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Standard & Poor's downgrade of US government debt from AAA to AA+ had many analysts expecting a rise in yields on treasuries. Yields rise when prices drop. By essentially saying that the credit …

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