Mickey Kim

Thankfulness doesn’t ignore hardship; it helps us see what’s still good and builds the resilience to keep going.

How do we figure out what truly adds value to our lives versus what just feeds the status beast?

America’s 401(k) system controls over $12 trillion in retirement assets, the single largest reservoir of investable long-term money on the planet.

This distinction isn’t just marketing. It’s a legal lifeline.

Some people hate roller coasters.

With the “honeymoon” over—in that the S&P 500 has surrendered all of its post-election gains—some historical perspective might help you survive the storm.

Financial markets have always been and will always be subject to bubble thinking.

Heeding “expert” predictions can be extremely dangerous and costly; such predictions should be considered “for entertainment purposes only.”

In difficult times, the hardest thing for long-term investors to do is to do nothing.

Candidates love to hand out “goodies” like tax reductions and tinker with the economy to curry favor with voters.

As the partisan storm increases in intensity, you might be tempted to make changes to your portfolio because of how you believe a short-term event like an election will impact the financial markets.

The challenge is determining an “appropriate,” or responsible, level of debt or leverage.

In a famous exchange from Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises,” one friend asks, “How did you go bankrupt?” To which the friend replies, “Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly.”