Your stock portfolio has to fight two major risks, the markets and inflation. Market risk is the chance that the value of your stock will drop. Inflation risk is that your portfolio will not grow fast enough to keep up with rising prices.
To combat these risks, many investors use a “Buy and Hold” approach for [...]

Lately there have been a lot of references to “stagflation” when describing the current economic outlook. Webster’s defines stagflation as: an inflationary period accompanied by rising unemployment and lack of growth in consumer demand and business activity. In other words, there are a lot of people who are out of work but prices are increasing [...]