My Comments: You have perhaps heard the expression that “... it’s like watching grass grow.” Or perhaps “... it’s like watching paint dry.” I use it when something I’m supposed to be paying attention to is progressing slooooooowly. It comes to mind in the constext of this article which has demographic overtones. Personally, I’m on …
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7-Footers In A Sea Of Pygmies
My Comments: Yesterday, I talked about amateurs and professionals when it comes to investing money. About how emotions get in the way at crucial times, often promoted by people who rarely have any reason to say what is in YOUR best interest, only what is in THEIR best interest. If they can persuade you to …
About That ‘Scary’ 1929 Graph
My Comments: So, is it 1929 all over again? Is the world as we know it coming to an end? We're doomed, I tell you, DOOMED!. Well, maybe not. As a financial planner and investment advisor, I try to have something posted about investments at least once a week. I’m not sure if I’m successful, …
Health vs. Wealth: What’s More Important?
My Comments: When I took economics courses in college in the early sixties, there was a common adage when talking about politics and business that you could not, at the same, have both guns and butter. This meant that at our industrial heart, we could either produce weapons of war, or we could produce products …
The Future Still Belongs to the Emerging Markets
My Comments: As someone who has helped clients manage their money for almost four decades, I’m still often caught up in the "crisis de jour", what's happening TODAY, as opposed to stepping back and looking at things from further away. Our society has become obsessed with WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW, and often fails to put …
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Is A Welcome Surprise Coming For Mortgage Rates?
My Comments: There are millions of us who worry almost every day about the state of our finances. And most of us have few clues how to react when we read or hear stuff that seems to be alarming. The default state for us, therefore, and especially with what happened in 2008-09 so close to …
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Why IS The Fed Tapering?
My Comments: Tapering is the term used to describe efforts by the Federal Reserve to slow down the monthly purchase of bonds. They have made these purchases for many months to help prop up the economy and keep interest rates low. It’s an important question for you if you have money in the markets because …
Why North American Oil Prices Are Set For A Big Drop
My Comments: The price of gasoline in this country has a huge influence on whether the economy grows or shrinks. (It is NEVER static.) We’ve all heard that with access to incredible reserves of natural gas, we as a nation are going to become a net exporter of fuel over the next decade or so. …
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5 Simple Reasons The U.S. Market Will Go Straight Up From Here
My Comments: Yesterday, my blog post gave you lots of reasons to believe the world was coming to an end., at least for a while. Did you read all of it? Today, you only have to look at the headline above to think I’m either a raving lunatic or as puzzled as you and the …
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The 7-Year Cycle That Will Crush Uninformed Investors, Again
My Comments: Many of you have seen, or soon will when you get your January statements, that 2014 has so far been a bad year for the stock market. This is an article that suggests there is a pattern. I’m not convinced that what he says is not a coincidence, but then again, what happened …
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