Image Source: 123rf.com If you’ve shopped for a used car lately, you’ve probably asked yourself, Why are these prices so high? It’s not just ...

I seldom encounter a market that I don’t have a decision tree. This market might be one that I have no idea how it will ...

This month’s note has shifted a bit due to the Hurricane Helene disaster; I removed a story, a photo and changed the first topic. It’s been an ...

The Rules Keep Changing Do you remember playing games as a child when there was one person that had to change the rules halfway through?  That change in ...

First a brief announcement: The 2025 edition of Social Security Made Simple is now available. Relative to the previous (2022) edition, there are of course ...

Market research is the backbone of customer-driven decision-making, yet gathering reliable insights has never been more ...

  Ouch! There's no easy way to put it – seeing a significant chunk of your portfolio value evaporate in a market downturn is a gut punch.  For me, that ...

Almost 40% of home shoppers hitting pause until after the election: survey An especially wild election cycle could hamper an already stalled housing market ...

Let’s compare the start of 2025 to previous years. The last obvious buyer’s market was in 2009, and in the graph above you can see ...

As dusk starts to descend on Hanoi, this fresh food market springs to life – for the second time today. It’s around 5 pm, and the intense Hanoi heat ...