My Comments: Many of us are climbing a wall of worry about our investments over the next 12 months. I’m not worried if your time horizon is ten years or more, but if it’s less, then I believe you have reason to be worried. Every week I’ve posted articles that justify the wall of worry. …
Continue reading When The Stock Market Performs Best During A U.S. President’s 4-Year Term
My Comments: I don’t normally upload any posts on the weekend. I’m usually distracted by other matters and assume you are too. However, I happened across this and it resonated with me. It’s another example, in my opinion, of a dysfunctional Congress that is leading us down a path that I don’t want to follow. …
Three and a half years ago I decided it was time for me to assert myself and take advantage of a little knowledge about social media and a desire to write. I decided to start my own blog. What you are reading, if WordPress metrics are to be believed, is post number 1000. How I …
My Comments: Frankly, I enjoy paying less to fill up the car with gas. There is more cash left in my wallet for me to deal with other things I need to buy. At the macroeconomic level, it will help retailers have a stronger holiday shopping season. That will help the economy. But like most …
My Comments: Here in the US we tend to think of Europe as a mis-directed older sibling, someone who can’t quite make it, by our standards. We forget that most of our laws and even the language we speak came from Europe. And those foundations were forged in a melting pot as violent and as …
Continue reading The Euro Is In Greater Peril Today Than At The Height Of The Crisis
My Comments: Continuing with the theme that if you have exposure to the markets you need to be very careful, here is another metric from someone who knows how to read the tea leaves. I’m reluctant to continually use fear to motivate people to act. But if you are not now in cash, then you …
My Comments: Until I found this, I had never heard of hedgewise.com. I make absolutely no assertion that they know what they are talking about. My personal solution for you is quite different from what you read below, but this part of life is almost always a guessing game. Oct. 30, 2014 http://www.hedgewise.com/ Summary • …
Continue reading 5 Reasons Why You Should Be Afraid Of A Bear Market
My Comments: In keeping with my recent posts that suggest a strong market correction is coming soon, some readers have suggested the solution is to shift away from stocks into more bonds. I remind them that interest rates have been declining since 1981 and they too will reverse course at some point. When they do, …
Continue reading The Fiendish Bond Market Needs a Radical Rethink
My Comments: By now you may be tiring of my posts that say a market crash is coming and yet here we are moving along merrily. But like a broken clock that is correct at least twice every day, I’m confident that a crash will happen before long, and it won't be a slow decline …
My Comments: I had no idea what or who is/was Banquo. Nor why ‘grain’ has any relevance. But I like to share the thoughts of this writer from time to time as his insights are often right on the mark. Remember what I said last week about the possibility of rising interest rates in the …
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