My roomate Nate came back this afternoon from running errands with a copy of "Real Money" by Jim Cramer, you know the crazy Wall Street guy on MSN who has the hit show Mad Money. During the show he screams a lot, hits weird sound clips and give hugs to the audience, but he also gives great advise on investing, almost like an educator. Just the other night on his show he recommended ZGEN and the next morning it jumped 12%, Booooohyaaaaaah Jim.
Anyways, before Nate could read his book I opened it up and plunged in the chapter on Investment Basics and after reading about 8 pages of it I was convinced (and realized) that I need to change my balance in investments to fit something more my age. He makes a lot of sense in saying that it's important to contribute to your retirement, even during hard times. But he also says that you should balance the boring (usually low risk, row return) rewards from retirement investing by investing with more 'aggressive' stance, sometimes speculative.