Investment Grade and High Yield Bonds
“In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable." Robert Arnott Bonds are an important component of many investors' portfolios. In…
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March 8, 2020
Intro to Earnings
Earnings: the thing all investors obsess about. Every company reports earnings and investors pay close attention to them. Investors look…
February 22, 2020
Credit ratings and credit scores
Credit Ratings and Credit Scores
You may have heard of credit scores before in various places during your daily life. These scores are part of…
February 19, 2020
Intro to the Circular Flow Model
The economy is far too vast and complex to fully understand, and thus economists have made models to simplify the…
November 1, 2019
Intro to Banking
Even though many people use banks every day, they do not understand the big picture of how banks work. Many…
August 16, 2019
Intro to Leverage
You gotta spend money to make money. Or rather, it takes money to make money. This is true because when…
July 25, 2019
BOSTON, MA - NOVEMBER 7:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren addresses the crowd at the Massachusetts Democratic Coordinated Campaign Election Night Celebration in Boston, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, November 7, 2018. Sen. Warren was re-elected. (Photo by Sarah Rice for The Washington Post)
Elizabeth Warren and Student Debt
If you are following the 2020 presidential election news, you’ve probably heard of Elizabeth Warren and her stance on student…
July 19, 2019
Intro to Dividends
While looking at various stocks, you may have noticed something called a dividend. Perhaps you saw a percentage that denoted…
June 28, 2019
Solutions to the Student Debt Crisis
The price of a college education has been spiking in recent decades. Although this may now seem like a fact…
June 17, 2019
Simple vs Compound Interest: What’s the Difference?
Interest is the additional amount of money you’re paid for letting someone borrow your money (principal). There are two different…
April 14, 2019