From Harford County Public Schools: With the ups and downs of the stock market over the past 3 months, many people have had difficulty making gains in their investments. However, that was not the case for three 5th graders at Joppatowne Elementary School. Mazin Karjikar, Stephanos Mulder-Stoupakis and Dylan Purkey were able to make more […]
Buy Low, Sell High: How Low Can The Dow Go?
The adage is to buy low and sell high. Americans, and world denizens, have been buying high from the stock market for more than a decade. The stock market was driven up to historic highs, and generally peaked at a Dow Jones 14,903 on October 12, 2007, a year ago today (Sunday). Over the past […]
Burning Down the House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis?
The government has now approved a record $700 billion plan to try to stabilize US–and world–financial markets. The plan is not a total bailout as the media describes it; it is more of a government purchase of the stock of failing companies. The government is expecting a return on it’s investment, and, who knows, perhaps […]
