"Of Dollars and Data" Articles

Weekend Reading: The Return on Hassle Spectrum
By understanding the difficulty grade of an investment, you can determine what works best in your portfolio, while considering the tradeoffs and hassles you’re willing to accept.

Weekend Reading: Why Down & Sideways Markets are Bullish
While there are no guarantees, data shows down and sideways markets can be one of the best times to stay invested or make further investments.

Weekend Reading: 7 Streams of Income to Get Rich
With multiple streams, you reduce reliance on one income outlet, while maximizing earning potential.
Weekend Reading: Where Do Millionaires Keep Their Money? [It’s Not Where You Think]
Like many, you might be curious about how millionaires, trillionaires and even billionaires approach money management. Understanding how they protect and grow their assets may just help you elevate your financial wellbeing too.

Weekend Reading: How Much Growth Can You Expect?
Of course you want to know what sort of return you might expect upon investing your money, but how possible is that when it comes to a stocks and bonds portfolio?

Weekend Reading: Should You Die with Zero?
One of the top financial concerns of today’s retirees is having enough income to last a lifetime; however, recent studies show there’s also another issue at bay: Leaving behind too much of that income.

Weekend Reading: The Yield Curve Just Inverted... Now What?
For the first time since August 2019, the U.S. economy saw a yield curve inversion. This means the interest rate paid on our short-term debt exceeded the paid interest rate on long-term debt of the same quality.

Weekend Reading: When the Optimists are Too Pessimistic
In reality, upside surprises occur more than we might realize, and this is due to what Magguilli refers to as “geometric growth”, versus our default way of viewing expansion, which is “linear growth”.

Weekend Reading: Will the Optimists Triumph Yet Again?
There’s something to be said about a “glass half-full” mentality, and despite what is currently unknown, we still might be able to foresee a relative direction of where we're going, via the market.