A Great Risk-Free Rate?

Generally, savings accounts are considered to be close to a risk-free investment. Given what you have learned about risk and return, you wou...

Time Value Of Money And The Real World

If you win the lottery, would you take the annuity payments or a lump sum? The South Carolina winner of the $1.537 billion Powerball jackpot...

Trading Royalties

If you are interested in an entertaining evening with Finance, we would recommend you curl up on the couch with popcorn and watch the classi...

Inflation Expectations

One thing to keep in mind with present value calculations, if you calculate the present value using real cash flows and the real interest ra...

Retirement Planning

We know that most students are interested in personal finance topics, so we like to post on personal topics occasionally. Consider your ret...

Dow 150,000!

With the DJIA at about 18,500, it may be hard to imagine the DJIA hitting 150,000, yet there is a good chance the Dow hitting or exceeding t...