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Hitting the jackpot
While we can all buy tickets to a lottery and hope to beat the long odds, what is more certain is copying how billionaires invest. We may not create a billion-dollar brand or portfolio but we can learn from their approach. When you dig deep into the ways of billionaires, you’ll find that they may...
The Fed got it right
Many sensationalist authors, pundits and experts would have us believe the world is ending when it comes to the U.S. money supply. They want to push their agenda forward, scaring […]
Is the market over-valued?
There are thousands of opinions on this. Most fall under two camps: bullish or bearish. Some of the more famous bears, like Robert Schiller, with his Schiller PE Ratio, would say that this market is over-valued. The optimists would say we are beneath historic valuations, and the market is fairly v...
Alphabet soup investing
There are thousands and thousands of acronyms floating around. New ones are cooked up on a daily basis. Here are a few of my favorite recipes from the investment community. […]
Beware this stealth risk
There are many investment risks. You have interest rate risk. Business risk. Credit risk. Taxability risk. Call risk. Inflationary risk. Liquidity risk. Market risk. Reinvestment risk. Social/political risk. Currency/exchange rate […]
Voting with dollars
“The cult of equity is dying,” the famous and controversy-loving Bill Gross recently wrote. The bond manager is the undisputed “bond king,” with his company managing $1.82 trillion dollars. In […]
Investing in “stuff”
Despite all of the bad things happening in Greece, Spain and other parts of Europe, the world economy will grow. Eventually. Right now we’re like a six-cylinder car running on […]
Three brothers and a cousin
There are many compelling investment ideas: It might be international stocks, a Dow Jones index, commodities, real estate, utility companies or tech stocks. No matter the investment, chances are there […]
Putting stock in Facebook
When Facebook went public in the largest IPO in U.S. history (as measured by market value), it provided some much-needed excitement for stocks and investing. Aside from the hoopla, there are some […]
How to spot an overheated market
We are having a very nice run in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The Dow has finally closed above 13,000. It was last at that point in 2008. Has the […]
How to win big like these guys did
Who was the best trader during the Great Recession? The answer may shock you. They logged more than 300 percent returns, totaling about $2 trillion in gains. They invested at the lowest depths of the economy. Who was this rogue group?
Muni bonds: The Rodney Dangerfield of investments
A good investment is like cheering for a bad sports team. Sooner or later, they are bound to win. You just have to hang in there. In 2009, I wrote […]
