ETF Investing Articles

Tax Day Is Getting Really Close

It’s St. Patrick’s Day, and that means you have slightly more than four weeks before you need to send that tax return to Uncle Sam. Over the past month, I’ve been working particularly hard on my own tax situation by meeting regularly with my CPA, Lee Haight. You may recall that Lee wrote an excellent […]

The Difference between Brokers and Advisors

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) has been all over the media lately with his plans to impose new regulation on the financial industry. One of the proposed changes to the current body of regulatory law includes the potential of designating brokers and other financial advisers as fiduciaries. Now, you may have already thought […]

ETF Talk: Is It a China Miracle or a Mirage?

The promise of the Chinese market is both alluring and foreboding at the same time. It is enticing due to the country’s estimated average 9.3% economic growth rate for the past 25 years, 1.3-billion population and the opening of its markets to foreign investment after decades of anti-free market policies carried out by backward-thinking communist […]

The March Higher Continues

On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve let Wall Street know that it’s going to enjoy an “extended period” of low-cost capital. The central bank was widely expected to leave interest rates untouched, and it did that. But all eyes were on the Fed’s accompanying statement, which included the “extended period” language that the bulls wanted to […]

Don’t Let This Happen

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.” –Thomas Paine There’s a lot of change going on in Washington these days, and some of it is downright frightening to freedom-loving citizens like me. I think we all need to remember the great Thomas Paine’s thoughts in […]

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A Very Insulting — and Instructive — Comment

“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”                 — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi You may have seen this news on Tuesday, as that is when Speaker Pelosi uttered what has got to be one of […]

Listen to My FREE Teleseminar

On Saturday, March 6, we held our latest teleseminar, titled “The Return of the Bear Market.” I want to personally thank all of you who joined me for this event, and as you know, we had a great time discussing ways to deal with the changing tide of the markets. If you didn’t get a […]

ETF Talk: It’s Time to Talk Turkey

If you’re anything like me, you enjoy turkey at Thanksgiving. But my sights at this time of the year now are set on the country of Turkey, which is offering what could be an appetizing investment opportunity through the iShares MSCI Turkey ETF (TUR). That exchange-traded fund (ETF) gives investors exposure to a promising emerging […]

Tax Day Is Right around the Corner

It’s March 10, and that means you have a little more than five weeks before you need to send that tax return to Uncle Sam. During the past month, I’ve been working particularly hard on my own tax situation by meeting regularly with my CPA, Lee Haight. You may recall that Lee wrote an excellent […]

Happy Anniversary, Mr. Bull Market

The date was March 9, 2009, and the S&P 500 Index was trading at its lowest level since the mid-1990s. The equity market was in literal freefall, and nearly everyone on both Wall Street and Main Street was worried that the U.S. economy — and the U.S. equity markets — were about to collapse. Well, […]