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My Comments: After 45 years of playing whackamole with the stock and bond market, I've long concluded I have zero access to a crystal ball. That being said, I now rely heavily on those whose expertise far exceeds mine and are far more likely to be correct than I ever hoped to be. If you …
Continue reading We Are Now Officially In A Stock Market Bubble
My Comments: I've been accused by some readers as being completely out of touch with reality. It's largely because my experience with markets over the past 50 years suggest the market performance over the past 6 months is divorced from reality. Meanwhile the market keeps showing signs of both optimism until it isn't. In my …
Continue reading Why The Stock Market Is Poised To Disappoint For A Decade Or Longer
My Comments: I make no claim to being clairvoyant. I can assert, however, that until recently, I spent 45 years as a self-employed professional in financial services and have a basic understanding of how the investment markets work. What many observers miss when commenting is that those of us who are retired don't have decades …
My Comments: As I write this Tuesday morning, early trading suggests what happened last Thursday and Friday is continuing. I have no idea where today will end or whether we're looking at a dramatic fall. I wouldn't be surprised if it continues this week and next. All I can say is good luck and don't …
Continue reading The Stock Market Flood Gates May Have Just Opened
My Comments: I make no claims about knowing what’s going on or how the future markets will unfold. I do know that I’ve been expecting a correction for months and have been on the sidelines since the recovery began last March. I’ve justified that because I’m more or less retired and don’t need to take …
My Comments: As a nation, we have three concurrent crises to deal with. The first and foremost is the pandemic. Nothing we accept as normal is going to return to normal until we find a way to control it. And that's complicated by the fact there is evidence it's mutating and becoming more easily spread …
Continue reading How To Prepare For The Greatest Wealth Transfer In History
My Comments: I'm not a prophet of doom. Never have been and haven't changed my spots. But I am a realist when it comes to investing in the markets. I've been in cash since March and missed most of the 3 month rally since then. Disappointing but... Some readers of these blog posts have laughed …
My Comments: I have no earthly idea if these guys are right or wrong. What I do know is that we're at war, we're losing, and the markets keep climbing as though their pants are on fire. There are clearly people who think it's different this time. I've been around those kinds of people before, …
My Comments: After 45 years participating in the markets as an investor and as a Registered Investment Advisor Representative, I've become genuinely flummoxed by what we're seeing almost daily on Wall Street. In my limited frame of reference, it makes no sense. There are too many previously reliable signals that what we see happening suggests …
My Comments: Two things of note before you get too far into this post. One is that I distrust assertions that "...this time it's really different". Too often it proves to be wrong. This time it may be right. Two is that I'm scaling back my efforts to present a blog post every weekday. I've …
