In the stock market, there are countless strategies for making a buck. Some investors like to focus on the fundamentals of the companies they invest in — poring over financial statements to figure out which firms are over- or under-valued. Others invest based on trends or macroeconomic events, like whether the Fed is raising or lowering interest rates.
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I came across this 53 minute documentary on why active investing doesn’t work for most people quite by accident.
A few minutes in I realized they had Yale’s Charles Ellis, Vanguard’s Jack Bogle, Rick Ferri and the whole galaxy of anti-active management priests.
It’s a good watch, find some time for this:
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One of the big questions hovering over the market highs is the ‘wealth effect.’
Normally when markets hit record highs, Americans feel wealthier because of their bursting portfolios. That paper wealth creates more confidence, which creates more spending, at least according to the theory of the wealth effect.
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Dow up 125 points yesterday, to a new all-time record.
Why? What’s behind it? The economy is not so hot. Why the red-hot stock market?
China is back in the news. A new report from CBS’s “60 Minutes” documents the extent of the ghost cities in China — miles and miles of empty highway, office towers, apartments and malls. Analysts are talking about the biggest real estate bubble in history!
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The “recovery” has prompted an appetite for more “productive” investments…
EVEN SEASONED travelers can make remarkably dumb mistakes, writes Daily Reckoning founder Bill Bonner.
That’s why we are writing to you from Baltimore rather than from Beijing. For the second time in a single week, we got to Dulles International Airport yesterday and discovered that we lacked the proper visa for travel to China.
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Investors are concerned about inflation. But how can investors attempt to inflation-proof their portfolios? Buy TIPS? Short Treasury bonds? Stocks? Real Estate? Commodities? Gold? Currencies? Or should investors regard those warnings about inflation as fear mongering?
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