Personal Investment Guide

I have both 401K and IRA accounts and I typically hold a stock or mutual fund in these accounts for about 2 to 6 months, then sell them and buy another stock or mutual fund (I don’t take cash out, just exchange them within the accounts). I understand that in regular investment account, capital gains [...]

A tax expert told me the following:
"Hank Paulson, the incoming Secretary of the Treasury, with a personal fortune of USD 700,000,000 has the right to benefit from a brand new tax exemption available only to those in government which is the right to sell all of his USD 700,000,000 of holdings and swap them into [...]

If mutual funds use most of the capital gains and dividends of their portfolios to make distributions to investors, why does the fund's net asset value (NAV) increase over time? It seems that distributing these gains would cause the NAV to remain steady, or to decrease.

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Fact: My wife & I will retire at 62, won't live in USA, & will have 3 types of securities-related incomes: my 401k + IRA & her Roth IRA. We have an after-tax-dollars joint mutual fund account. When we reach 62, we'll apply for Social Security, but the money we might receive is [...]

Can I buy euros or yen for ex; in a US brokerage account? Or can I only hold the foreign currency in cash? How can I protect my US cash from being de-valued other than to buy foreign ETFs, foreign stock, etc…?
I DO want interest or to invest as the currency (not US dollars) and [...]