Does simply giving the grandkids money or gift cards also leave you feeling disconnected or even unappreciated? Try Grandma K’s successful strategy: Focus on investing rather than spending! Grandma K usually gives her grandkids certificates for birthdays, Christmas and graduations—certificates for shares of stock, not gift certificates to spend at the mall. It’s a great idea that…
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Taking the Plunge if I’m Scared to Invest
Is there an ideal time to invest? Is the stock market ever not volatile? Naturally peppered with daily economic and political events around the globe, the market seems to zigzag more like a jackrabbit than plod along like a tortoise. Yet looking back over the last 200 years, the stock market ups and downs made a slow, steady climb upward. It…
Slow and Steady Wins the Investing Race
“When will the market settle down and be right for me to invest in some stocks?” my young nephew recently lamented. Is there an ideal time to invest? Is the stock market ever not volatile? Naturally peppered with daily economic and political events around the globe, the market seems to zigzag more like a jackrabbit than plod along like a tortoise….