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The central idea: buy low, and sell high. It’s the oldest stock market adage, and in the wake of the recent selloff, dollar cost averaging may give you a method to capture lower prices today and come out ahead tomorrow.

A rebound was widely expected, but not as large as this. Of course, we had some major news developments that for once were more encouraging than discouraging.

Is an election year good for stocks? Well, let’s look at some data. Keep in mind, it’s only data – and as the old saying goes, past performance is no indication of future results.

Many economists trace our current recession to excess capacity in the housing sector, which still has a remarkable inventory of unsold homes. With more supply than demand, prices fell – and you had a ripple effect throughout the broad economy.

With energy costs continually on the rise, it is no wonder we are still able to survive in a society with ever increasing inflation. As we begin to wonder if there is any end in sight, there are some suggestions as to ways of easing the burden.

Over the course of the last three years, the home loans range, which includes mortgages, remortgages and secured loans have gone through a period of complete turmoil. It was a feature of mortgages and remortgages, during this period, that they had low interest rates.

It is common practice amongst mainstream Western economic scholars to cite the theory of market failures as a justification forgovernment intervention

Whole sections of libraries are given over to stockpiling the thousands upon thousands of books that deal with how...

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Two of the top members of President Barack Obama's cabinet made it very clear earlier this month that the lack of financial literacy among America's youth is the next major crisis that will plague the