I recently pulled up a chart of the Nasdaq QQQQ index just to see where we are in the long term scheme of things. It was interesting to see that we are right back where we were before the credit crisis meltdown. Even more interesting, we were within a percent of where we were back [...]
Emerging Markets have been the rage the past decade as The BRICs, Frontier Markets and other ways to describe developing countries have made constant headlines. Emerging countries like China and India continue to post blow out growth numbers but does that automatically make them the best place to invest? Granted if you were invested ahead [...]
When I first looked at a Health Savings Account I had a hard time seeing why everyone wouldn’t have one of these instead of traditional health insurance. Basically if you spend much less on health insurance because you have a high deductible health plan (hdhp) and the money saved can be deposited into the health [...]
In theory one would think that an electric car is the ultimate green machine since some (like the Nissan Leaf) don’t even have a tail pipe, emit very little noise and are simply plugged in to recharge. However, it’s that last part that is not quite as green as everyone would like to think. In [...]
The great commodity boom reignited in the 4th quarter of 2010 with copper & gold hitting all time highs along with sugar and silver hitting 30 year highs. Besides the boost received from the monetary easing in the form of QE2 there are several other factors influencing commodity prices. #1 – The emerging markets of [...]
