By Gary Silverman, CFP®

By Gary Silverman, CFP®

By Gary Silverman, CFP®

We’ve been looking at lessons the individual investor, you, could have learned from the Financial Crisis. The first lesson: You won’t see it coming in a way that allows you to win. The second lesson: Stuff happens even when you just know it won’t.

By Gary Silverman, CFP®

Last week we began looking at lessons you, the individual investor, could have learned from the Financial Crisis. The first lesson: You won’t see it coming in a way that allows you to win.

Last time, I looked at what the government learned from the financial crisis (don’t bother looking up the previous edition—the answer was not much).

By Gary Silverman, CFP®

Over the last weeks we looked back 10 years at the Financial Crisis, the ramifications of which continue to this day. While not everyone agrees with my assessment of what caused it, everyone agrees that it was not fun. So, what can we learn from it to try to make sure we don’t have to go through another crisis in the future?

By Gary Silverman, CFP®

Over the last two weeks, we’ve talked about the 10-year anniversary of the Financial Crisis. We first looked at the initial impetus that started mortgage demand and the reasonable profit motives that expanded the lending market. Today we look at what I consider to be the true problem: Greed.

By Gary Silverman, CFP®

By Gary Silverman, CFP®

It’s been 10 years since the Great Recession. From an investment market standpoint, it began in late 2007 and didn’t end until early 2009. The stock market fell off the cliff in September of 2008.

By Gary Silverman, CFP®

Last time I wrote about how your savings are really just the mathematical result of your income less your expenses. The idea I proposed was that in order to save more, you need to concentrate on expenses. This week I’d like to take a brief look into the income side of things.