I recently got an email from a reader wanting to know how I’ve been able to accurately assess market and economic conditions so consistently over the past few years, even though I’m not an investment, economic, or any other type of financial professional.
I thought it best if I answered that question here, for everyone [...]
As often as I try to encourage amateur individual investors like myself to embrace independent financial analysis and to make their own investment decisions, as a previous commenter with a vaginal problem shows, there are still those who’ll regurgitate what them deem is credible information in an attempt to convince us that someone else has [...]
Although I sometimes speculate and invest in the markets using contrarian investment strategies, it’s usually because I feel pretty confident about my forecasts or where we’re headed.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any of that confidence right now. I’m not too sure what to make of the markets lately and I really don’t have any strong clues [...]
Trying to rationalize an irrational market is causing a lot of indecision and anxiety lately. Seems like many investors are having a hard time deciding whether to buy into the Bull or wait for the Bear. What are you going to do?
If you’ve been a long time reader of my blog and haven’t figured it out just yet, there’s one thing that really jerks my gherkin. It’s the oft-used phrase “it’s different now”. Let me explain why this bothers me.
During the Thrift Savings crisis of the 1980’s new rules were instituted to prevent banking corruption from [...]
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Is It Safe Yet?
To many investment bankers working on Wall Street, information means everything, while sentiment and uncertainty are to be avoided at all costs. These people are serious about wanting absolute answers before deciding whether it’s safe to move their money out of cash and into equities.
To support my point, here’s recently uncovered video of a [...]