In Security Analysis, Benjamin Graham emphasizes the importance of not only focusing on a firm’s potential and accounting statements, but to also pay great attention to the business cycle. Individual investors should research and create their own one year outlook for the market.
Almost any security may be a sound purchase at some real or prospective [...]

After a year where we felt housing prices drop precipitously, the previous decade of strong real estate appreciation seems forgone. The credit crunch has drained the pool of home buyers to mostly families with impressive credit scores and the ability to make large down payments (as it should have been for the past two decades!). 
While [...]

Is the 47 year old Timothy Geithner prepared for arguably Barack Obama’s most important appointment? The first decisions made by Mr. Geithner will clearly be crucial to the U.S.’s economic future, as Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff emphasized, “the decisions that are going to be made in the first 100 days of this administration could have [...]