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A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. ~ Yogi Berra When we looked at the current pros and cons of investing in commodities and real estate, it became quite apparent that there are some pretty good arguments on both sides of the debate. We often hear contradictory truisms. Cash is trash. Cash is king. Which is it? The correct answer is likely “it depends”. There are times when [...] Continue reading Cash: Is It Trash or King? No man acquires property without acquiring a little arithmetic also. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson We continue our look at the prospects for various asset classes in the current market environment today with a survey of the commodities and real estate landscape. Both of these are usually considered hard assets. As Dennis Gartman always says, “if you drop them on your foot, they hurt”. Generally speaking, hard assets like [...] Continue reading Commodities and Real Estate: Pros and Cons A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way. ~ Mark Twain I was going to do a single article on the pros and cons of investing in different asset classes right now, but I decided [...] Continue reading Stocks and Bonds: Pros and Cons Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest. ~ Author Unknown We’ve been talking about bubbles all week. So far, we’ve outlined 5 financial bubbles and 5 socioeconomic bubbles that could affect your money and your quality of life. It looks like we may have a bubble of bubbles on our hands. Does that have to be a bad thing? How can we prepare [...] Continue reading No Respite in Diversification The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. ~ Theodore Rubin Update: This article was included in the Carnival of Personal Finance – Gettin’ Hot in Here Edition posted at Nerd Wallet. Thanks! I’ve mentioned inverse ETFs a couple of times lately, so I thought it might be a good idea to explain what they [...] Continue reading Inverse ETFs: Pros & Cons |
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