What it is all about: learn the ins and outs of stock and bond investing with a pretend portfolio, along with regular tips from Moneywise during a yearlong series US capital markets were on another tear and another all-time high last week. But is it for real? Is it driven by exemplary corporate earnings and corporate buybacks, or by twitter news, tariff vacillations and puffery? The inverted bond yield curve has reversed, so maybe it is not time for another crash and recession. Who knows? Only time will tell. In the meantime, good companies will continue to report good earnings, concomitantly as their stock price increases in value. Businesses under stress for numerous reasons: change in consumer tastes, high production costs, changing workforce demands, obsolescence, nationalism — where citizens boycott goods and services produced outside the country borders, will struggle, but hopefully not permanently. Whatever the outcome for a publicly traded corporation, capital investment markets are here to stay. Investing is a subject of intense interest and strategy manoeuvres every day for those in that stratosphere, so it behoves Moneywise to encourage every reader to take on another opportunity to learn more. The chances are your older children are […]