…they do it? Most companies aren’t hiring. What if they’re sick or taking care of family members who are sick? Or, they’re just afraid of getting sick? As a result,…
…get a 50 percent weight, and price-to-book, price-to-sales, price-to-cash flow, and dividend yield get 12.5 percent each. Half of the definition is forward-looking, unlike the academics, which is all backward-looking….
…that Bitcoins didn’t seem legitimate, but they’re on a tear, so I’m giving it a shot. Bitcoin is the first, largest and best-known crypto-currency. But what is a crypto-currency? That’s…
…– that’s scary! Thankfully, his comments aren’t really true. It’s a gross – no, grotesque – over-generalization designed to hype and sell Lewis’ new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street…
Until I read the book ‘Hedge Hogging’ by Barton Biggs before the 2008 financial crisis, I had never heard the term ‘drawdown,’ which refers to the peak-to-trough decline of an…
…forewarning. The chart below shows the returns for the S&P 600 Small Cap index (in orange) compared to the S&P 500 index of large cap stocks. The out-performance and a…
…most liquid common stocks and corporate bonds issued by non-financial companies. Initial versions of the regulation left municipal bonds out completely, but some changes recently introduced by the Federal Reserve…
…any sleep over. Even though mainland Chinese stocks have dropped by -20.8 percent, our Vanguard emerging markets ETF is ‘only’ down by -7.3 percent. Of course, I would prefer gains…
…stresses don’t exist and things go according to plan. But you’re not earning very much either. So, in our view, the paltry compensation isn’t worth the risk. Last week, I…
…NFLX). The company reported earnings of $3.53 per share, which was well better than analyst expectations of $2.91 per share, and the company’s own guidance, which was for $2.86 per…
