With housing prices rising and student loans at an all-time high young adults are finding it increasingly difficult to purchase their first homes. Paradoxically, many of them could afford the monthly payments on a home – in fact they are paying as much for rent as a monthly mortgage payment would cost – but they…
December 17, 1903 dawned cold and windy at Kill Devil Hills in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The temperature was not much above freezing and the wind blowing at over 20 mph. After years of work, frustration, progress, and setbacks, all of it in almost complete obscurity, Wilbur and Orville Wright felt like they…
There is a big myth out there that knowledge is power, and…we throw that around a lot, and it’s actually a lie. Knowledge is only potential power. And it only becomes power when we…use it and apply it.…We can talk about principles all day long, and if we don’t apply them, it’s just potential. –…
“He’s been chased by Masai warriors in Tanzania. Slept in snow caves to survive. Swum through New Zealand caves to see glowing worms. Stopped a bear from dragging his friend away in a sleeping bag…” So begins an article about Stacy Taniguchi, BYU professor of experience design and management, in the Winter 2019 edition of BYU…
Investing success accrues not so much to the brilliant as to the disciplined. – William Bernstein Stupid is as stupid does. – Forest Gump In investing, behavior is more important than brilliance, and it isn’t even close. Consider the case of Sir Isaac Newton. Newton was one of the most influential scientists ever and…
John C. (Jack) Bogle died January 18, 2019 at the age of 89. Bogle created the first widely available index fund and relentlessly worked to lower investment costs, eventually forcing other mutual fund companies to follow his lead. It is not an exaggeration to say that Bogle did more for individual investors than anyone…
