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Schumpeter vs. Amazon.com

Dear Mr. Berko: Amazon.com recently agreed to sell Nike products. Amazon can sell Nike’s merchandise for less than retail stores can, and according to my college professor, this is a

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Schwab and Customer Service

Dear Mr. Berko: I’m 83 and a conservative investor. My stockbroker of 21 years retired from his six-man firm, and my $166,000 individual retirement account isn’t big enough for Merrill

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Hold Boeing?

Dear Mr. Berko: In January 2010, you advised me to invest $10,000 in Boeing. I bought 157 shares at $63. Thanks to you, I’ve quadrupled my money, and the $5.68

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Talking Funds

Dear Mr. Berko: My wife and I are engineers, and we’re in our late 40s. In June 2015, you recommended a group of single-country exchange-traded funds, and we bought 800

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What Does Warren Buffett See in General Motors?

Why there’s a case for GM as a value gem — and a growth story. General Motors‘s (NYSE:GM) stock is trading at just 6.3 times GM’s expected 2017 earnings. That’s well below

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How to Truly Max Out Your Retirement Savings

Push your tax-favored savings to the limit with these tips. Many investors struggle to find any money to save toward retirement, but a few fortunate investors have more favorable financial

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3 Stocks That Have Paid a Dividend for at Least 135 Consecutive Years

Income stocks don’t get more rock-solid than this. In many ways, you could think of dividend stocks as the financial foundation of your portfolio. The reason is that they bring

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Could Your 401K Get Hit With a Trump Tax?

One proposal suggests changing taxes on 401K contributions to pay for corporate tax breaks. When Donald Trump campaigned for president, a staple of his platform was corporate tax reform. Since

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State of Mind

The CEO of Henderson Behavioral Health, Dr. Steven Ronik, weighs in on game-changing advances in treatment, legislative concerns and much more. After 21 years as CEO at Henderson Behavioral Health,

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Winds of Change

Meteorologist Bryan Norcross looks back on the hurricane that devastated South Florida—and forever altered his career. It’s been 25 years since Bryan Norcross was in the right place at the

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3 Reasons Apple Stock Fell After the iPhone X Event

The new iPhone is going to be a hit, but Apple shares still fell during Tuesday’s debut. Let’s break down the reasons it happened. Like a kid who gets every

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My thoughts on Irma and technology

Hurricane Irma shows just how far we have to go when it comes to technology. Even in an era when the Weather Channel proclaimed it’s powered by IBM’s Watson, it

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