My Comments: These lists are usually somewhat pathetic. Why just 3 secrets; why not 5? And these are not really secrets. But I needed something to try and catch your attention today so here are 3 Secrets! I think it’s very possible that the next 30 years are going to be far less ‘profitable’ than …
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Investment Test
My Comments: I have no idea where the following came from. I found them in my archives and decided the respective statements and explanation are still very relevant. And besides, today is Monday and that’s when I post stuff about investing money. My apologies for not being able to correctly attribute this post. Which investment …
5 Ways to Protect Your Money in Retirement
My Comments: OK, #5 may be a bit of a stretch for me. I’ve had a black thumb all my life; anything I plant dies immediately. There are now millions of us in retirement, or what for some of us is semi-retirement. And whether you believe it or not, the rules underlying economics and finance …
Stock Manager of $37 Billion Doesn’t Believe the Earnings Hype
My Comments: Monday, post #2. First, you don’t get to manage $37B unless you know what the hell you are doing. Two, the higher we go, the harder will be the fall. Put a lot of your money in cash and keep it there until the dust settles. by Jonas Cho Walsgard / February 19, …
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Trump is in the wrong place at the wrong time when it comes to the stock market
My Comments: It’s Monday, my day to talk about investments. Today, there will be two posts instead of one. I think we’re in a bubble, and those don’t end well. From the tulip mania bubble several hundred years ago in Holland to the DotCom bubble in 1999-2000, a lot of people lost a lot of …
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Opinion: This Market Bubble is About to Burst
My Comments: Yesterday, I decided it was time to think about moving my clients out of cash and back into the markets. At least with some of their money. Now, once again, I’m not so sure. If you are retired, or about to be retired, and have the ability to control the investments made inside …
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Investment Strategies for Your Retirement Accounts
My Comments: A phrase I’m known to use from time to time is that ‘life in this country is better with more money than it is with less money.” While this might seem too obvious for you, there are many people whose efforts to have more money have fallen flat. Here’s a few ideas that …
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Last seen in 1929, in 2000, and 2008
Stocks have only been this expensive during the crash of 1929, the tech bubble of 2000, and the last financial crisis in 2008-09 My Comments: Economics 101 teaches us that owning shares of a stock means you own a piece of the company that issued the shares. It’s value on any given day is what …
A Mind-melting Number of Galaxies in the Universe
My Comments: Now that Matthew has taken his wind and rain to bother someone else, I can focus my time and energy on less earth-shattering thoughts. I am very thankful we were spared what happened in Haiti; I can’t imagine the agony those people are living with. And speaking of not being able to imagine, …
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We’re Issuing a Formal Alert: Something Major is Coming in the Markets
My Comments: I know, I know, I said the worm had turned. Well, maybe not. Phoenix Capital Research/Sep 29, 2016 Time for a reality check. The market has had nothing but positives for three months now. BREXIT was contained. The Fed failed to raise rates again. The Bank of Japan and European Central Bank are …
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