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Currency Risk: What Is It?

Many U.S. investors never consider the impact that changes in foreign exchange rates can have on their investments....

Commodities Trading: Investing in Water

Like gold and silver, water is a commodity—and it happens to be a rather scare commodity.

Commodities Trading: Investing in Silver

Silver is the second most-common precious metal. It's an important industrial metal used in the electrical,...

Commodities Trading: Investing in Gold

Commodities trading (or investing) is the buying and selling raw materials such as agricultural products, livestock and...

Building Long-Term Wealth with Stock Dividends

A dividend is a distribution of a portion of a company's earnings. Companies can choose to regularly reward their...

Investing in Bonds: Portfolio Diversification, Market Size, Credit Rating

According to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the global bond market was worth $126.9...

Value Stocks: A Wonderful Business at a Fair Price

As mentioned in Growth Stocks: Industry Disruptors That Generally Do Not Pay Dividends, value stocks are seen on the...

Growth Stocks: Industry Disruptors That Generally Do Not Pay Dividends

From the railroads of the late 1800s, the invention of the automobile, the first airplane, the television, household...

Preferred Stocks: A Deeper Dive (Comparison to Common Stocks & Bonds)

Generally sold with institutional investors in mind, preferred stocks are a form of fixed-income security. Like bonds,...

Common Stocks: A Deeper Dive (Voting Rights, Risks, Dividends)

Companies sell stocks to raise money, which they then use for initiatives like general corporate purposes, growth or...

Investing in Stocks: Stock Types, Market Capitalization, and Market Sectors

Investing in stocks means buying shares of ownership in a public company with the goal yielding higher returns when...

How To Start Investing: Goals, Risk Tolerance, and Investment Securities

Investing is a way to make your money work so that it's worth more tomorrow than today. It means buying and holding...

How Do You Sell Your Purchased Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

One reason that you may decide to sell your NFT is because it appreciated in value. When calculating your possible...

How Do You Create Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

Created in 2012, Colored Coins are considered the first step towards Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). We discussed that NFTs...

How Do You Purchase Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

We discussed that Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) aren’t actual cryptocurrencies but instead tokens on a blockchain that...

What Are Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are tokens on a blockchain that represent ownership of a digital creation such as art,...

Mining Cryptocurrencies: Proof of Stake vs. Proof of Work

Since cryptocurrencies are decentralized and not under the control of financial institutions, proof-of-stake (PoS) and...

Blockchain: Valuing Cryptocurrencies & Cryptoassets + Survival Checklist

In a publishing by Keith Black, PhD, CFA®, CAIA®, FDP, he states that while there are more than 20,000 cryptocurrencies...

Blockchain: How Decentralized Finance Can Help Low Income Populations

According to a 2020 publication by Acuant, the number of people unbanked globally was listed at more than 2 billion....

Blockchain 101: Cryptoassets and Smart Contracts

Remember Investing 101: How Investing Works? This week, I present to you Blockchain 101. I recommend that you bookmark...

Blockchain: What Are the Benefits of Smart Contracts?

One of the most important features of blockchain is that the data it holds is not stored in a centralized location....

Blockchain: What Are Smart Contracts?

According to Fool, “Smart contracts are programs written on the blockchain that self-execute when certain conditions...

What Are Advantages & Disadvantages of Investing in Cryptocurrencies?

This week, we’ll cover the advantages and drawbacks of investing in cryptoassets. Why would anyone choose...

How Do You Purchase Cryptocurrencies?

With more than 20,000 cryptocurrencies in circulation—Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, Cardano, Solana—you should know that a...

How Many Cryptocurrencies Are There & How Are They Taxed?

Currently, there are more than 20,000 cryptocurrencies in circulation from Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, Cardano, Solana,...

What Are Cryptoassets?

Cryptoassets include cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, tokens, and other digital assets. More than 20,000 different...

Investing 101: How Investing Works

This post is a compilation of recent articles and covers topics such as value investing, the stock market crash of...

How to Pick Stocks for the Long Term: A Brief Overview

When you own a stock, you’re a partner with an expanding business. With the purchase of a bond, you’re essentially...

Bear Markets: A Brief Overview

A bear market is generally defined as a decline of 20% or more in a major market index like the S&P 500 or the Dow...

Value Investing: The Way of Berkshire Hathaway

Warren Buffett, also known as the Oracle of Omaha, began buying shares of Berkshire Hathaway in 1962. He picked them up...

Value Investing: Where to Look for Hidden Value?

The essential task of a value investor is to determine the intrinsic value of a security in order to take advantage of...

Macro & Microfundamentalist Value Investing: Does It Work?

Value investing, as defined by Benjamin Graham, is a strategy of buying securities only when their market prices are...

Black Tuesday: Vanished Hopes on Wall Street

Throughout the 1920s, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) served as the financial heart of the United States.

Notable People in History Podcast

Come along with me and explore the lives of Archimedes, Autherine Lucy, Abraham Lincoln, Cleopatra, Thomas Edison, Harriet Tubman, Galileo Galilei, Madeleine Albright, Albert Einstein, Wangari Maathai, Ctesibius, Valentina Tereshkova, Chiune Sugihara, … and others who’ve greatly influenced society.

Plutarch: Obtaining Knowledge through Suspension of Judgement

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Plutarch. Born in Boeotia, educated in Athens, and made a priest at Delphi, Plutarch wrote over 200 works, among them Parallel Lives and Morals.