That Cheery Notion of Upbeat Economic News
Barron’s Alan Abelson lets fly another fusillade this morning. In Parting the Mist, he observes that the White House is...
Apprenticed Investor: Reading Is Fundamental
Today’s Apprenticed Investor column — Reading Is Fundamental — is part 1 of a two part suggested reading list for...
Vanguard: Nest Eggs Lack Attention and Diversity
"Investors too often let their retirement nest eggs lie without proper attention, and don’t do enough to diversify their...
Absolute Price is Unimportant
Terrific quote, brought to our attention via Jeff Saut (Raymond James): “The absolute price of a stock is unimportant. It is the...
Gold versus Stocks
The usually terrific Floyd Norris puts forth an interesting but somewhat flawed thesis in Friday’s NYT about Gold; it has some odd...
Sell some winners and most of your losers
On the possibility that the year end rally isn’t all that: "On the wild assumption that those nearly universal bullish...
Impossible Returns? Hardly . . .
"Certain price patterns are nonrandom and will lead to a predictive effect." That statement, according to the Random Walk...
Apprenticed Investor: There Are No Shortcuts
The latest "Apprenticed Investor" column is up: There Are No Shortcuts. Sorry to be the one to deliver the sad news, but...
The Myth of the Hedge Fund
There’s an interesting analysis out of Europe, titled Capacity in the hedge fund industry. The firm Watson Wyatt asks "Can the...
Do Markets Care About Politics?
On Wednesday night, Larry asked me what the 2005 elections might mean to the Markets; I think my answer surprised him a bit: If his...