No one knows what they’ll do in a moment of crisis and hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. ~Joan Baez When I wrote Another Bear Market: Is It Time to Buy? earlier this week, I tried to summarize the current bull and bear points of view. I also promised to write about how we’re approaching the… Continue Reading
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Another Bear Market: Is It Time to Buy?
Every exit is an entrance somewhere else. ~Tom Stoppard So the markets have really taken it on the chin lately. I read a blog post via Twitter a week ago that said it was a great time to be greedy. It was widely retweeted by many in the personal finance blogosphere. It’s just the kind… Continue Reading
Portfolio Options for a Risky Market
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don’t embrace trouble; that’s as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you’ll see a lot of it and had better be on… Continue Reading
Yes, You Can Live Without Bonds
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. ~J.K. Galbraith A recent article in the Globe and Mail delivered the following advice to investors: Don’t Let a Fear of Bonds Infect Your Healthy Portfolio. The implications are clear: 1. Concerns about ultra-low interest rates eventually turning higher are overblown. 2.… Continue Reading
Why This Is No Market for Couch Potatoes
Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution. ~Raymond E. Feist Update: This article was featured in the Totally Money Carnival at Family Money Values. Thanks! A recent article in Money Sense magazine offered some data on investment returns for the publication’s preferred investment… Continue Reading
What’s Next for the Markets?
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak. ~Jay Leno Today’s quote illustrates why it’s so hard to invest in markets. There are so… Continue Reading
Where Is the Stock Market Headed Next? Part II
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. ~ Saint Basil Update: This post was included in the Carnival of Financial Planning – Edition #146. Thank you! Today we’ll try to answer the last four questions posed by Kevin at… Continue Reading
Where Is the Stock Market Headed Next? Part I
Weather is a great metaphor for life – sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad and there’s nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella. ~ Terri Guillemets A couple of weeks ago Kevin at Out of Your Rut asked a question that a lot of people ask themselves and others pretty regularly:… Continue Reading