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What's the SEC? Easy. Seals Eating Candy. Or maybe Silly Elephants Canoodling? We can never remember. Guess it's time to watch this video and refre...

What is inflation, and if we poke it with a pin, will it pop?

Who invests in stocks? 401k plans, pension funds, institutional investors, banks, traders, clients of Schwab, Fidelity, and Franklin. Joe Blow buys...

What is Coupon Stripping? Coupon stripping is the process of taking a coupon bearing bond and separating the coupons into individual zero coupon se...

What is a High Alpha Investor? A high alpha investor invests in securities with alpha values of 1 or higher. This means that the mutual fund or sto...

What are Angel Investors and Seed Funds? Angel investors provide the funds for small start-ups. They are usually family and friends (not institutio...

How do you get a startup funded? Depends if we're talking about a tech startup, or a non-tech startup. If you've got a promising, budding tech comp...

What is liquidity? Think: water. It's liquid. It can be squeezed into little, tiny spaces and infused into large spaces. A defining trait of liquid...

A liquid market is a market featuring high trading volumes, i.e. investors actually want to put their cash to work.

Who is Warren Buffett, and how do we get him to give us a loan...?

What is an Affiliated Person or Affiliated Investor? An affiliated person is known as an insider in the financial world. These are the people who h...

What does it mean to "go public?" An IPO raises cash in the form of equity, usually, for investors. When public, a company exists under SEC dominio...

What is an Entrepreneur? An entrepreneur is just a person who starts and owns his or her own business. As an entrepreneur, every step in starting a...

What is term life insurance, and variable life insurance? Hit play to find out, and, uh...let's hope you live long enough to figure out the answers.

Reg A is an exemption for the sale of securities. We wonder if it has any sweet steel drums in the background.

Who benefits from unions? Trade unions ostensibly exist to protect the interests of their rank and file constituent members. They were crucial for...

What is the difference between common and preferred shares? Common stock is at the bottom. It comes at the very end, when a company is sold, in the...

What are pink sheets? And can we bleach them to make them white again?

An MBO is a Management Buy Out (a buy out by inside management); an LBO is a Leveraged Buy Out (taking on debt to buy a company).

What is a Bubble? In markets and economic cycles, any kind of rapid run up trend characterized by over exuberance and emotion over fundamentals tha...