In 1990, a friend asked me if I wanted to attend a National Association of Investors Corp. (NAIC, now called Better Investing) conference to learn about starting an investment club. I said, “sure,” and we went on to form a women-only club. There was a good reason for that. Most of our members were women…

Whether you’re an avid trader, a novice investor, or just read the news, you no doubt learned about the Reddit trading craze in which a group of individual investors, many trading on Robinhood, identified heavily shorted companies and began buying up shares. Stocks like GameStop (GME), AMC Entertainment (AMC) and BlackBerry (BB) rapidly reached all-time…

As the U.S. rapidly approaches the light at the end of the proverbial pandemic tunnel, the economy seems primed to come roaring back in a big way. The market is already pricing in a full recovery, and Main Street is experiencing a rally of its own in a red-hot housing market that, in this low…