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Demographics Is the Next Investing Fad

Admin wrote 4 days ago: Looking at history and the long waves of demographics is a great and fine thing. It can tell you a h … more →

Tags: behavioral finance, Market Cycles, market risks, Personal Finance, Demographics, Equity Markets, Investing, Market Forecasters

Thinking Back, Looking Forward

Admin wrote 1 month ago: It’s an old adage: Investors have short memories. Another: the market discounts the future. Here’s s … more →

Tags: behavioral finance, Fisher Investments Analyst Views, Behavioral Finance, Investing

Congrats to the Flanneled Prophet

Admin wrote 6 months ago: There are few on the planet who’ve studied Star Wars as closely as me. Not sure if I should be proud … more →

Tags: Capitalism 2, Probablility, George Lucas, star wars, LucasFilm, Disney

Sandy’s Impact Is Archetypal

Admin wrote 6 months ago: By now, folks have gleaned the Sandy storm won’t have as much economic impact as feared. On the Mond … more →

Tags: Globalization, market risks, Media Hype/Myths, Personal Finance, Politics, US Economy, Probablility, Hurricane Sandy, Acts of God

Tail Risk Is Not What You Think It Is

Admin wrote 10 months ago: “Tail risk” is all the rage today. There are products and prophesies galore on this supposed new top … more →

Tags: Market Cycles, market risks, tail risk, lehman brothers, hedge

Shake the Myopia Mood

Admin wrote 10 months ago: Myopia is the mood of the era. (If myopia isn’t an official “mood” yet, let’s make it one. Like mela … more →

Tags: behavioral finance, Geopolitics 2, China, History, Peter Diamandis, Abundance, myopia, wealth building, Wealth

Thinking through the VVIX

Admin wrote 1 year ago: The folks at MarketMinder.com have offered a great and pithy piece analyzing the latest in financial … more →

Tags: Alternative Investments, behavioral finance

The Age of Robots and Unemployment

Admin wrote 1 year ago: One of the new, and more amusing, fears about the modern economy is that productivity gains in robot … more →

Tags: Capitalism 2, Market Cycles, market risks, technology, Unemployment, Robots, Misperception

A Dose of Optimism

Admin wrote 1 year ago: Mark Mills and Julio Ottino’s Op-Ed in the WSJ on Monday, Jan 30, “The Coming Tech-led Boom,” is a m … more →

Tags: Capitalism 2, developed markets, Market Cycles, Media Hype/Myths, US Economy, Wall Street Journal, forecasting, finance theory, WSJ

Happy Birthday, EVH

Admin wrote 1 year ago: Eddie Van Halen recently turned 57. This is not important for investors to know. But in a way, it so … more →

Tags: Finance theory, Forecasting, Market Cycles, Media Hype/Myths, Eddie Van Halen, finance theory, Ken Fisher, Warren Buffett

Great Advice: Avoid Investment Newsletters

Admin wrote 1 year ago: Jason Zweig’s piece in last weekend’s WSJ is spot on, and important advice: What business has an est … more →

Tags: Finance theory, Forecasting, Media Hype/Myths, Personal Finance, Wall Street Journal, Suze Orman, Jason Zweig, investment newsletters

Fisher Investments' Latest Stock Market Outlook

Admin wrote 1 year ago: For a cogent synopsis on the current market environment, check out Fisher Investments’ newest Stock … more →

Tags: Fisher Investments Analyst Views, behavioral finance, Forecasting, GDP, Geopolitics 2, Market Cycles, Media Hype/Myths, Personal Finance, taxes

Why Worry? The Obama Tax Plan Is DOA Anyway

Admin wrote 1 year ago: Wow! Check these out:  Obama Is Looking for Jobs In All the Wrong Places Not Taxes or Deficit, It … more →

Tags: Capitalism 2, GDP, Geopolitics 2, Personal Finance, Politics, US Economy, obama, buffett, Buffett tax

Irene Is a “Teaching Moment” for Economists

Admin wrote 1 year ago: I’ve always believed meteorology has been a good way to think about economic forecasting models. Sim … more →

Tags: Forecasting, Market Cycles, market risks, Media Hype/Myths, Personal Finance, US Economy, Economic Analysis, recession, forecasting

Reasons to be Optimistic

Admin wrote 1 year ago: Call me Pollyanna, but I’m more sanguine on the global economy than most right now. Here’s a grab ba … more →

Tags: Forecasting, GDP, Personal Finance, US Economy, Global economy, US employment, Stock Market Indicators, Yield Curve, commercial bank loans

IP Rips

Admin wrote 1 year ago: For all the soft economic data of late, and there’s been plenty, it’s particularly interesting to se … more →

Tags: Market Cycles, Media Hype/Myths, US Economy, Fisher Investments, fisher investments graph, industrial production numbers

Saving the World from Debt Ceilings

Admin wrote 1 year ago: Around my office the last few weeks we’ve joked that—once this debt ceiling drama is finally resolve … more →

Tags: Deficits, Market Cycles, Media Hype/Myths, Politics, taxes, US Economy, marketminder, debt ceiling, US Debt & Deficit

Economy versus Earnings

Admin wrote 1 year ago: One of the great lessons of investing is that earnings matter. Banal? Trite? Tautological, even? Sur … more →

Tags: Corporate Earnings, Finance theory, Forecasting, GDP, Media Hype/Myths, US Economy, Durable Goods, services indexes, sentiment indexes

Grey Pigeon Alert

Admin wrote 1 year ago: Back in April, I highlighted a phenomenon scrambling investors’ minds by the score: people were seei … more →

Tags: GDP, Media Hype/Myths, taxes, US Economy, marketminder, black swan, grey pigeon, capital management


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