In order to analyze current state of events in the world economy, parallel analysis with the country that has gone through boom cycle in real estate and financial asset prices (as US did during the last decade) and sudden consequential bust in mid 70s and late 80s (USA 2007), namely Japan, is...

There are many attractively-designed portfolio-tracking websites, which often come as an addition to brand-name portals, each attempting to offer unique and useful features for portfolio analysis. However, we should not confuse marketing and functionality. Portfolio trackers claim that they...