Conventional financial-planning wisdom says that you should always have the equivalent of three-to-six months’ salary tucked away somewhere safe to handle emergencies. I’ve heard this mantra since I ...

There’s more to fret about, too. Retail sales suck. Manufacturing activity has taken a downturn. Now the crazy Trump war has ignited the Middle East, swollen energy costs, further disrupted global ...

This is shaping up to be the most moribund, comatose, on-life-support market since the Great Ennui of the early 1990s. Then we had a recession, stiffer interest rates and job stress.

The TACO trade resumed this week, reinforcing two cardinal rules. Never bet against America. Always hedge against Trump. The Trump-Always-Chickens-Out scenario was in full flower yesterday during the ...