Black Friday is a Comin’ !
It’s become a favorite holiday tradition around these parts: wait for the National Retail Federation annual holiday spending...
John Oliver on President-Elect Trump
Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. How did we get to this point? And what do we do now? President-Elect...
Investors and Political Pundits Fooled by Randomness
Everyone Knew Trump Would Win All Along People fool themselves into thinking that things turned out just as they expected. But the world...
Picking Investments is Nothing Like Buying a New Car
This is a really interesting comparison to broad and diversified asset allocation investing: click for full graphic Source: Visual...
Last Time GOP Controlled All 3 Branches of Government
Here is a reminder about the last time this happened, when Republicans ran all 3 branches of the federal government: “When George...
2016 Election Fact Checker
For those of you who still care about facts: FactCheck Rankings Source: Washington Post
Bill Miller: Closet Indexers Are Killing Active Investing
The move from active investing to passive has been a hot topic lately. Fund flows show that investors are voting with their feet. The...
No State Economy Has Done Worse Over the Last 5 years than Kansas
I have been talking about Kansas for some time now — most recently Kansas Ends Bad Economic News by Not Reporting It on...
Elections Impact Markets Much Less Than You Think
S&P 500 Index price returns, from January 1981 to October 2016 click for ginormous graphic Source: Fidelity Some quick...