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We Must Take Back Our Race

There is a plaque in my office that contains a quote by the great John B. Russwurm, editor of Freedom’s Journal, the first African American-owned and operated newspaper published in...

The Young & The Restless

andrew simon wishes he had been one of those lucky investors who bought Google at $100 back when the company first offered shares to the public in August 2004. The 23-year-old teller at Chase Bank in San Francisco watched with envy as the search engine’s share price rose to a peak of $715 by December 2007. Now, Simon is getting his chance to buy one of his favorite stocks on sale. Last October, after the Dow Jones dipped and the S&P sagged, he purchased a small stake in Google (GOOG) at $356 per share—almost half of what it traded for a year earlier. At the same time, Simon loaded up on Intel (INTC), buying 30 shares at $14. When the price dropped to $13 in December, he bought 70 more shares. “It was like shopping on Black Friday, but the prices were even better,” he says.

Making Ends Meet

Unexpected events are apart of life. And perhaps no one knows this better than Dana and Julius Williams. In 2005–at the age of 46–Dana’s mother suffered a stroke. She is...

Smart Money Moves

Edwin Kennedy is no buy-and-hold investor. HE’S always scouting for opportunities to boost the upside potential of his $150,000 stock and mutual fund portfolio. Recently, the Valley Stream, New York,...

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