The pressure is enormous. Stress is running high. Emotions are probably taking over.
For investors, that's all thanks to the latest jerky, roller-coaster moves in stocks...
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AI Is Coming for U.S. Health Care
Doc's note: Artificial intelligence ("AI") hasn't just taken over the technology sector.
As Rob Spivey, director of research at our corporate affiliate Altimetry, explains, the new administration is using AI to drastically revamp health care in the U.S...
The Answers to the Tariff Test Are Coming
We all want to know what effects tariffs will have on our favorite businesses.
We also want to know whether or not we should worry about a recession.
Fight This Disease With John Philip Sousa
I suspected something was wrong when I had to help the older man with his jacket.
I was on a flight to JFK airport in New York. I noticed his hands shaking, but I didn't say anything... that is, until I realized it was actor and science-communications advocate Alan Alda.
Unlike Fools, the Wise Avoid Most Stocks, Most of the Time
Doc's note: If you want to make real, significant gains in the stock market, you can't follow the herd.
As my friend and colleague Dan Ferris explains today, only fools put their money where the crowd is...
Now Is the Time to Own Gold
You could be 25 years old and just starting out in your investing career... or 10 years into retirement... and we'd have the same advice for you.
Own some gold.
A Day of Reckoning Will Come
Forget the twists and turns of tariff policy... Forget what pundits are saying on the news...
Instead, focus on one thing.
Men, Skip the Little Blue Pills
Fancy a radioactive cocoa-butter suppository?
In the mid-1900s, "Vita Radium Suppositories" came in a small box containing a 15-day course of the stuff. And their maker, the Denver-based Home Products Company, advertised that these suppositories "contain a result-producing amount of highly refined soluble radium" which is "absorbed thru the walls of the lower colon, enters the blood stream and is carried to all parts of the body – to the weakened organs that need its vitalizing aid."
You Don't Need the Stock Market to Make Big Gains
Doc's note: When most people think of investing, they think of the stock market. But, as my colleague Eric Wade explains today, the stock market is the "little pond" most investors swim in. If you want life-changing gains, you'll need "deep, blue ocean" investments...
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Building Wealth During Market Instability
Forget Warren Buffett and George Soros for a minute... We want you to think about a different investor – a young woman named Alexandra Bergson.
She arrived in the Nebraska plains with her brothers around the turn of the 20th century. Their parents were Swedish immigrants who had set out to become farmers. But early on, things looked bad...