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The Best Ways to Value a Stock 05/14/2017 08:00pm • How do you value a stock? The market value is obvious -- it's whatever the shares trade for -- but what about it's real, intrinsic value? Determining a stock's true worth is a crucial part of value investing, the discipline made famous by Warren Buffett. Many investors also subscribe to it, but rel The Ultimate Frugal Guide to Traveling the World After College Graduation 05/14/2017 08:00pm • You have the rest of your life to work 40-hour weeks at a "grown-up" job. Before racing into the world of 9-to-5 workdays, consider taking advantage of your transitory freedom and lack of commitments to travel after graduation. As most professions limit vacation time to a couple of weeks, you may n 5 Signs You Need to Take a Pause in Your Career 05/14/2017 08:00pm • Ever wish you could just hit a "pause" button for your career the way you do for your TV? According to Rachael O'Meara, you can. O'Meara, a sales executive at Google and an executive coach, is author of the new book " Pause: Harnessing the Life-Changing Power of Giving Yourself a Break." U.S. News r Too Early to Tell Impact of Trump's Tax Plan 05/11/2017 08:00pm • Tax reform may not be the most exciting topic to discuss over dinner, but analysts say it's one of the reasons for the stock market's rally since Donald Trump was elected president. Although it remains to be seen whether sweeping tax changes will come to fruition, there are some clues about what Tru Never Invest In Something You Don't Understand 05/10/2017 08:00pm • Billionaire Wall Street icon and Berkshire Hathaway (ticker: BRK.A, BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett has admitted he missed a huge opportunity by not investing in Amazon.com, Inc. ( AMZN) and Alphabet Inc ( GOOG, GOOGL) subsidiary Google. In fact, during the technology explosion that has created countless For the Sake of Our Kids' Mental Health, We Must Teach Them to Innovate 05/09/2017 08:00pm • "Sam" -- whose real name I'm not using to protect his privacy -- was a first-year college student when he was referred to me. He was taking English and music, and he had slashed his arms with the bow of his violin. He told me it was not a suicide attempt but rather a protest against his childhood. Warren Buffett Investment Pushes Apple Inc (AAPL) to All-Time Highs 05/08/2017 08:00pm • Shares of Apple Inc. (ticker: AAPL) hit new all-time highs this week after its most famous investor gave the stock a huge vote of confidence over the weekend. At Berkshire Hathaway's ( BRK.A, BRK.B) annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, billionaire value investor and Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett dis How Consumers Can Protect Their Online Privacy Right Now 05/08/2017 08:00pm • There's nothing more disconcerting than having the pair of shoes you once considered buying stalking you around the web, popping up in advertisements while you read the morning news, browse Facebook or send an email. Nothing, it seems, is truly private online, whether it's your shopping history, th Why Trump's Tax Cut Plan Will Fuel Stock Buybacks, Not Jobs 05/07/2017 08:00pm • President Donald Trump's recently proposed tax cut plan cuts corporate taxes from 35 percent to 15 percent, and also calls for a one-time tax break for corporations repatriating overseas from abroad. The latter measure is meant to incentivize U.S. companies to bring cash they're holding overseas ba 9 Last-Minute Memorial Day Getaway Deals 05/07/2017 08:00pm • Embrace the unofficial start of summer with an affordable getaway.Itching to skip town for the three-day weekend at the close of May, but haven't locked in your vacation plans? Now is the time to act. While you were better off booking a month ago, not all hope is lost, says Jeff Klee, CEO of CheapAi Google's (GOOG) YouTube Lost 5 Percent of Top Advertisers in April 05/07/2017 08:00pm • A new study from MediaRadar revealed that an advertiser boycott of Google's YouTube may have cost the video platform 5 percent of its top advertisers last month -- a finding that threatens the stock of Google parent company Alphabet Inc (ticker: GOOG, GOOGL). In late March, several high-profile You How Headhunters Use LinkedIn to Find Talented Candidates 05/04/2017 08:00pm • Today, about 95 percent of recruiters utilize LinkedIn as a major sourcing tool to find candidates to present to their client companies seeking top-tier talent. But if you want to be found by one of them, it's important to understand how they use LinkedIn to source their candidates and position you Key Parenting Takeaways From the TED2017 Conference 05/04/2017 08:00pm • As one of only a few pediatricians at last week's TED2017 conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, I want to let you in on a little secret I'm fairly sure most parents and conference attendees don't know: The TED conference is actually a parenting conference. Sure, influential people from around Scholarships Support Students Breaking Barriers 05/03/2017 08:00pm • Everyone knows of and applauds efforts to increase the number of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics -- or STEM -- fields. But these aren't the only sectors where roles traditionally are assigned to one gender, and gender isn't always the barrier in play. Several organizations 10 Ways for Investors to Buy the Market 05/03/2017 08:00pm • Pick up an entire stock index.You often hear financial pundits saying things like "the market is soaring" or "most fund managers can't beat the market." But what exactly do they mean when they say "the market" -- and if the market's so great, how do you go about buying it? The answer to the first qu