I wrote this article on my Golden Valley Patch Blog on August 15, 2011. The Gophers football camp is now in its second week. The Minnesota Vikings played their first exhibition game this weekend. My son’s high school football team begins practice this week. Football...
Article written by me on my Golden Valley Patch Blog on August 11, 2011. On July 22, the S&P 500 closed at 1,345, up almost 7 percent for the 2011 year-to-date. As of the market’s close on Wednesday, the S&P 500 was off nearly 11 percent for the 2011...
This Article was written for my Golden Valley Patch Blog on August 8th, 2011. By the time you read this, I hope that you have avoided the recent stock market “panic.” In Minnesota, in August, with or without kids in tow, most Minnesotans are so busy that they don’t...
I originally wrote this article on August 5, 2011 on my Golden Valley Patch.com Blog After yesterday’s historic stock market decline, it is time again to read the usual financial media headlines that are produced after every historic stock market decline. If these...
If you are reading this blog post, you are probably too old to be out filling up a candy bag tonight. But you are never too old to have the daylights scared out of you. If you are divorced or remarried, you need to look up who is the current beneficiary of your...
By now, you have opened your quarterly company 401(k) account statement for the July 1 through September 30, 2011 calendar quarter. This period is defined as the 3rd calendar quarter of 2011 (Q3 2011). You can see how awful this time period was for your company 401(k)...
