My daughter Josephina is 6 years old and in the first grade. Her homework assignment for the holiday weekend was to interview each family member and ask them what they're "thankful for" this Thanksgiving. I was the last of the family members she...

  Two days before "Black Friday", it looks like the Grinch is in the house again this year... From AP by Jeannine Aversa entitled: Debt turning shoppers into Scrooges "A lot more Americans are feeling stressed out by debt this holiday...

      Acccording to the Case-Shiller Index, home prices in 20 U.S. cities rose for a fourth straight month in September, leading some to believe real estate has reached a bottom. However, compared with a year earlier, prices were actually down 9.4...

Jim Rogers is a socialist. (Not the famous investor and "Adventure Capitalist" Jim Rogers.) The Jim Rogers I'm referring to is CEO of Duke Energy, one of the three largest utilities in the country. He tends to be a staunch conservative, and his...

When people think "alternative" investments, books don't usually come to mind. Like wine and coins, collecting books is considered more of a hobby than an investment move... But every few years, a genuine opportunity pops up in the book world. The...